(noun.) special design or visual object representing a quality, type, group, etc..
(noun.) a visible symbol representing an abstract idea.
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双语例句
Almost daily he whetted his keen knife and scraped and whittled at his young beard to eradicate this degrading emblem of apehood. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯.人猿泰山.
The blue eyes of my angelic girl were fixed on this sweet emblem of herself: How the light palpitates, she said, which is that star's life. 玛丽·雪莱.最后一个人.
Why is the Thistle the Emblem of Scotland? 佚名.神奇的知识之书.
And so the Winged Lion of St. Mark, with the open Bible under his paw, is a favorite emblem in the grand old city. 马克·吐温.傻子出国记.
What to him the sanctity of the star which the Son of God has hallowed as his own emblem? 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托.汤姆叔叔的小屋.
She seemed the emblem of my past life; and here I was now to array myself to meet, the dread, but adored, type of my unknown future day. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特.简·爱.
Well, this dead man had some Catholic emblem round his neck, and that, along with his colour, made me think he was from the South. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔.福尔摩斯归来记.
A bad earthquake destroys our oldest associations; the earth, the very emblem of solidity, has moved beneath our feet like a thin crust over a flui d. 李贝.西洋科学史.
Under this respectable emblem stood a cross, stated to be the mark of Gurth, the son of Beowulph. 沃尔特·司各特.艾凡赫.
A cloak (on a woman's back) is an emblem of charity--it covers a multitude of sins. 威尔基·柯林斯.月亮宝石.
This key, you must know, Mr Maurice, is the emblem of sovereignty in Melnos—the sceptre of the island! 弗格斯·休姆.奇幻岛.
To this distressful emblem of a great distress that had long been growing worse, and was not at its worst, a woman was kneeling. 查尔斯·狄更斯.双城记.
Birds began singing in brake and copse: birds were faithful to their mates; birds were emblems of love. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特.简·爱.
I suppose that is the reason why gems are used as spiritual emblems in the Revelation of St. John. 乔治·艾略特.米德尔马契.