英:[ˈsɪgnɪfaɪd]
美:[ˈsɪɡnəˌfaɪd]
英:[ˈsɪgnɪfaɪd]
美:[ˈsɪɡnəˌfaɪd]
n.
符号义,所指
v.
表示…的意思,意味( signify的过去式和过去分词 )
具有重要性,要紧
Noun
1. the meaning of a word or expression; the way in which a word or expression or situation can be interpreted;
"the dictionary gave several senses for the word"
"in the best sense charity is really a duty"
"the signifier is linked to the signified"
The first known use of signified was in 1939
1 That just as white collar workers will never return to old office life or old office schedules, they will never return to old office dress and the social order that signified.
2 Ro questioned the status quo and valued her personal identity — as was signified by her insisting on wearing her Bajoran earring, which Jean-Luc astutely notes is missing when we see her again.
3 Her only rules were that we must wait to go outside the wall until the light fell against our house with an angle that signified four o’clock.
4 Alexander signified his consent with a nod.
亚历山大点头表示同意.
5 Something that is conveyed or signified; sense or significance.
意思;意义被表达或代表的事物;意思或意义。
6 There were a handful of actual design elements, and their rare use signified a certain megastar status.
7 The principle of pure arbitrariness is a signified integrates with a signifier.
潜在的所指与能指是否预先现成地存在着,这使得任意性原则可分为“前设任意性原则”和“纯粹任意性原则”.
8 Other prisoners thought it signified that Max enjoyed special privileges.
9 But even though we signified and recognized a movement of people wanting to equip themselves with information to go forward, I think that became the far and the few.
10 “Acquaintances and friends avoided each other in the streets,” Carey observed, “and only signified their regard by a cold nod.”
11 And he was right in at least one sense: Gone With the Wind signified the peak of Hollywood greatness.
12 I asked one nurse what the signified.
我问其中一位护士那胸针表示何意.
13 It signified that I trusted them, that I was myself in front of them.
14 Becoming a father signified that he was now an adult.
当了父亲意味着他已是个成年人了。
15 Twelve baboons painted on the wall signified the 12 hours that it would take to get there.
16 He alternately sang, sat behind a piano -- guy’s got some great barrelhouse chops -- blew typically mesmerizing harmonica runs, coughed-forth couplets and occasionally did a quirky little groove dance that signified approval or joy or something.
17 The mirror is a sea of conflicting emotions signified above all by the color scheme of her reflection.
18 Ever since 1929, when the first batch of Academy Awards statuettes were handed out after dinner at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel, the annual awards being doled out have signified two things: money and self-esteem.
19 That journey was signified by a variety of instruments and processes.
20 A 1980 self-portrait is carefully stylized to evoke a 1950s bad boy, signified by an elaborately exaggerated ducktail haircut and black leather jacket.
2 所指