核心畫面
Picture something small and visible standing in the place of something big and invisible: a heart shape for love, a flag for a country, H for hydrogen. The mark itself is simple — its whole job is to point past itself at an idea people have agreed it carries.
可以想成：一個看得見的小東西，站在一個看不見的大概念前面替它出場——一顆愛心代表愛、一面旗子代表一個國家、一個 H …更多收起
可以想成：一個看得見的小東西，站在一個看不見的大概念前面替它出場——一顆愛心代表愛、一面旗子代表一個國家、一個 H 代表氫。那個記號本身很簡單，它的工作就是指向自己以外的東西，而且是大家講好它代表什麼，它才代表得成。原始詞典資料10 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
symbolnoun/ˈsɪmbəl/
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A character or glyph representing an idea, concept or object.
- "$" is the symbol for dollars in the US and some other countries.
- Chinese people use word symbols for writing.
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A thing considered the embodiment or cardinal exemplar of a concept, theme, or other thing.
- The lion is the symbol of courage; the lamb is the symbol of meekness or patience.
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human-scienceslinguisticssciencesA type of noun whereby the form refers to the same entity independently of the context; a symbol arbitrarily denotes a referent. See also icon and index.
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A summary of a dogmatic statement of faith.
- The Apostles, Nicene Creed and the confessional books of Protestantism, such as the Augsburg Confession of Lutheranism are considered symbols.
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chemistrycrystallographynatural-sciencesThe numerical expression which defines a plane's position relative to the assumed axes.
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obsoleteThat which is thrown into a common fund; hence, an appointed or accustomed duty.
- They do their work in the days of peace […] and come to pay their symbol in a war or in a plague.
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obsoleteShare; allotment.
- The persons who are to be judged […] shall all appear to receive their symbol.
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computingengineeringmathematicsAn internal identifier used by a debugger to relate parts of the compiled program to the corresponding names in the source code.
另外 1 個記錄的用法
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communicationselectrical-engineeringengineeringA signalling event on a communications channel; a signal that cannot be further divided into meaningful information.
symbolverb/ˈsɪmbəl/
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To symbolize.
- […] They told me that the Holy Rood had lean'd / And bow'd above me; […] / [I]f it bow'd, whether it symbol'd ruin / Or glory, who shall tell?
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。