单词 | emblem |
释义 | em·blem (ĕmbləm) n. 1. A distinctive badge, design, or device: trucks marked with the company emblem; the emblem of the air force. 2. An object or representation that functions as a symbol: "a bed of sweet-scented lilies, the emblem of France" (Amy Steedman). 3. An allegorical picture usually inscribed with a verse or motto presenting a moral lesson. [Middle English, pictorial fable, from Latin emblēma, raised ornament, from Greek, embossed design, from emballein, to insert, set in : en-, in; see EN-2 + ballein, to throw; see gwelə- in the Appendix of Indo-European roots.] emblememblem of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration |
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