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单词 symbolic
释义
symbolic
(sɪmbɒlɪk )
1. adjective
If you describe an event, action, or procedure as symbolic, you mean that it represents an important change, although it has little practical effect.
A lot of Latin-American officials are stressing the symbolic importance of the trip.
The move today was largely symbolic.
Synonyms: representative, token, emblematic, allegorical  
symbolically (sɪmbɒlɪkli ) adverb [ADVERB adjective]
It was a simple enough gesture, but symbolically important.
2. adjective
Something that is symbolic of a person or thing is regarded or used as a symbol of them.
Yellow clothes are worn as symbolic of spring. [+ of]
symbolically adverb [ADVERB with verb]
Each circle symbolically represents the whole of humanity.
3. adjective [ADJECTIVE noun]
Symbolic is used to describe things involving or relating to symbols.
...symbolic representations of landscape.
Synonyms: figurative, representative, allegorical, illustrative  
Collocations:
deeply symbolic
A cut, if it were to come, would be seismic and deeply symbolic.
Times, Sunday Times
I found the red room deeply symbolic and looked on all these tall, column-like men with a raised eyebrow.
Times, Sunday Times
This casual slight was deeply symbolic; the representatives left the meeting crestfallen.
Times, Sunday Times
The timing of the test was deeply symbolic.
Times, Sunday Times
Abstract settings, deeply symbolic scenery.
Times, Sunday Times
symbolic object
Discourse and institutions evolved in parallel with the symbolic object.
The Times Literary Supplement
During the song which accompanies each course, a symbolic object may be carried to the kings throne by two or more ceremonial guards.
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They are functional accessories and symbolic objects loaded with meaning.
The Times Literary Supplement
This show, a rich mixture of performances captured on video, photographic records, symbolic objects, assemblages of props and immersive installations, deliberately juxtaposes works of different periods.
Times, Sunday Times
When the eyes are closed, fantastically vivid images appear: first geometrical forms and then landscapes, buildings, animate beings, and symbolic objects.
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symbolic value
But its symbolic value is incalculable.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
Scottish citizenship would be of largely symbolic value for celebrities.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
The meetings are sometimes attended only for their symbolic value.
Christianity Today (2000)
symbolic victory
Columnists came piling in yesterday, nervous that she could score a symbolic victory.
Times, Sunday Times
Paring back retirement packages however, would be little more than a symbolic victory.
Times, Sunday Times
The activists' critics accuse them of focusing on a symbolic victory over coal at the expense of a practical solution to the reef's problems.
Times, Sunday Times
It marks another small, symbolic victory in the unending struggle of people everywhere to preserve their national sovereignty.
Times, Sunday Times
A win by a smaller margin could prove to be a mostly symbolic victory, since the president could still use the country's supreme court to veto legislation.
Times, Sunday Times
Translations:
Chinese: 有象征意义的
Japanese: 象徴的な
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