For centuries he was represented only through a set of symbols.

几百年间都只能通过征物来表现。

The clock was my orienting metaphor for the world.

这个时钟是让我在世界中能找到方向的征物。

But at least 6m people, probably closer to 100m, in 126 countries of the world, accepted them as tokens of the Divinity He personified.

但是在世界上的126个国家里，有六百万，或许接近于亿人，相信它们是赛巴巴所代表的神的征物。

You make the pilgrimage to that thing to see and feel that special quality that these icons have, you've actually been there and witnessed it yourself.

重点是你像朝圣样去参观，去感了这征物所具有的特殊品质，你真的去过那里，亲眼目睹了它。

Until shortly before then, the Buddha had been represented only by sets of symbols the tree under which he achieved enlightenment, a pair of footprints, and so on.

在那之前，教徒们直用征物来代表佛陀，如他开悟时的菩提树、双脚印等等。

Maybe what's at play here too, again, I'm going back to the social engineering concept you brought up earlier, is that we become grateful for the tokens.

或许这里还涉及到的，再次回到你之前提到的社会工程概念，是我们变得对这征物心存感激。

The Catalan leader Quim Torra has gone on trial in Barcelona in connection with the yellow ribbons and other separatist symbols on public buildings displayed before Spain's general election in April.

加泰罗尼亚领导人奎姆·托拉已在巴塞罗那接审判，原因是他与4月份西班牙大选前在公共建筑上悬挂黄丝带和其他与分裂有关的征物。

So protesters toss symbols of their oppression into what they refer to as the freedom trash can, which also happens to be what I call the dumpster outside Whole Foods.

于是， 抗议者们将他们压迫的征物抛入他们所谓的“自由垃圾桶” ，而这恰恰也是我称之为全食超市外那个垃圾箱的地方。

The cyclical narrative became essential in one of the rituals of the Eleusinian Mysteries, and the symbols of the cult became the ear of corn and a torch, which signifies Demeter's search for Persephone.

周期性叙事在厄琉息斯密仪的仪式之中变得关重要，崇拜的征物变成了玉米穗和火把，其征着德墨忒尔寻找珀尔塞福涅。