signify
美 [ˈsɪɡnɪˌfaɪ] 
英 [ˈsɪɡnɪfaɪ]
词形变化
过去式：signified 第三人称单数：signifies 现在分词：signifying 同义词
英汉双解
1. | [t] 表示；说明；预示to be a sign of sth |
| This decision signified a radical change in their policies. 这个决定表明了他们的政策发生了根本的变化。 |
| This mark signifies that the products conform to an approved standard. 这个标志说明这些产品符合指定的标准。 |
| The white belt signifies that he's an absolute beginner. 白腰带表示他完全是个新手。 |
2. | [t] 表达，表示，显示（感情、意愿等）to do sth to make your feelings, intentions, etc. known |
| She signified her approval with a smile. 她笑了笑表示赞同。 |
| He nodded to signify that he agreed. 他点头表示同意。 |
3. | [i] 具有重要性；要紧to be important or to matter |
| His presence no longer signified. 他在不在场已不重要。 |
英汉解释
英英解释
例句
Originally it had been given the name: the Age of Aquarius to signify the new era of spiritual enfoldment as foretold in astrology.
原来它被命名为宝瓶座时代，正如星占学预言的，它意味着精神扩展的新时代。
Oh, hi, you know that girl from the Greek restaurant with the hair (holds his hands up to signify she has big hair)?
哦，那个，你记得那个希腊餐厅里头发那样的姑娘不？
That could signify 'there was an urgent need to move' to get the weapons to an active conflict zone, he said.
他说，这可能意味着“迫切需要采取行动”把这批武器运到爆发冲突的地区。
With the rest of us a little carelessness this way or that did not signify; so in our dealings with him we had to be anxiously careful.
他对别人，这样那样的一点粗心不要紧，可同他打交道时，我们却得很谨慎。
Here we address the question of what such annotations signify and of how they are created by working biologists.
在这里，我们处理的问题是什么等标志和说明他们是如何创造的工作生物学家。
The dark blue pieces signify components that are the core part of Eclipse's Rich Client Platform (RCP).
图中深蓝色的部分代表的是Eclipse的富客户机平台（RichClientPlatform，RCP）的核心组件。
They signify the mode of factual existence and that of existential living of human individual respectively.
此二者分别代表人类个体之实存与存有之方式。
"What does it signify, " said the cat, "it is no worse than Crumb-stealer, as your god-children are called. "
“那有什么？”猫说，“不比你的那些教子叫什么‘偷面包屑的’更糟吧？”
Improvement as a player does not always signify greater results, though, as Federer has found out this year.
作为一名选手，费德勒在今年取得了进步，但进步并不总是意味着取得骄人的成绩。
This landslide did not signify a repudiation of the League but rather revealed the confusion and growing popular apathy over that issue.
这种压倒性胜利并不意味着否定国联，而是表明人们在此问题上的思想混乱和公众对它的日益冷漠。
But there was one recent study that implied that one of her DNA sequences might signify a slightly higher risk of obesity.
但是最近有研究表明，她的DNA序列中有一组意味着她可能稍稍有肥胖的风险。
This will be a joyous event, as it does signify the end of the wars and the beginning on peace of Earth.
这会是一个值得高兴的事情，因为这预示着地球上战争的结束和和平的开始。
What used to signify desire or the desire to be desired now boils down to narcissism.
曾经表示渴求的或者等待被渴求的欲望现在都可归结为自恋。
For it seems unreasonable to me, in sending a prisoner, not to also signify the charges against him.
据我看来，解送囚犯，不指明他的罪状，是不合理的。
In short, the word "existence" does not signify any attribute, and in consequence no attribute that belongs to the nature of anything.
总之，“存在”一词并不表示任何属性，因而也不表示属于任何事物特性的属性。
Pressure drops may signify when filtration in pumps or other equipment need to be changed or serviced due to clogging.
压力下降可能是抽水机或者其他设备中的过滤塞由于堵塞而需要更换或者维修。
But when the word holy is applied to God, it does not signify one single attribute.
但是当圣洁一词用于神，并非定义了某个单独的属性。
Love has various lodgings; the same word does not always signify the same thing.
爱拥有形形色色的住所，同一个词不总是意味着同样的东西。
Marriage, after all, did not signify feelings of love or affection between boy and girl.
婚姻，对她们俩将并不代表男女之间的爱或感情。
The component parses the ID and checks for a specific mode value to signify whether the document should be opened in edit mode.
该组件将解析ID并检查特定模式值以表示是否应当在编辑模式下打开该文档。
This landslide did not signify a repudiation of the League but rather revealed the confusion and growing popular apathy over that issue.
这种压倒性胜利并不意味着否定国联，而是表明人们在此问题上的思想混乱和公众对它的日益冷漠。
Indeed, what does the very term defence signify in connection with the neuropsychoses, if it is not a defence against what?
的确，有关神经变态狂患者，防卫这个术语的意涵是什麽？难道不就是对抗什麽的防卫？
Initially the apostrophe was used to signify the omission of a sound. Gradually it came to signify possession.
起初，撇号用于标识一个音节的省略，渐渐地又用于表示拥有。
A special character string or a bit pattern may be used to signify the end of the record.
可用一个特定的字符串或位模式来表明记录的终点。
This relation is called a differential relation because one signifier can never signify itself, it must always refer to other signifiers.
这个关系被称为延异关系，因为符号无法单指自己，总是会提及其他符号。
And whether or not those characters signify any improvement, Heigl doesn't mind at all doing unattractive, so the heck with vanity.
而不论这些特点意味着任何改善，琳海格并不介意在所有做吸引力，因此，赫克与虚荣心。
This placement of Uranus can signify that the two of you simply like to do things in your own highly individualistic style.
天王星的这个相位可能意味着你们两个人只不过是想以自己极为个人化的风格做事。
We might not know exactly what they signify, but they can provide any economic forecast with a populist cover.
我们可能不知道它们真正显示了什么，但是它们可以以最广泛的覆盖率来完成任何经济调查。
For it seemed to me unreasonable, in sending a prisoner, not withal to signify the charges against him.
据我看来，解送囚犯，不指明他的罪案是不合理的。
The Thenardier made one of those movements of surprise which signify neither assent nor refusal.
德纳第妈妈一惊，那是一种既不表示同意，也不表示拒绝的动作。
Master Zhan specially mounted the four animals onto the same frame to signify the flow of good bearings.
硕士占专门安装的四个动物到相同的框架，以显示的流动良好的轴承。
Not until the late 1800s were colors assigned to signify certain areas of study, but they were only standardized in the United States.
到了十八世纪末，才出现不同的颜色代表不同的研究领域，但这一做法仅仅在美国规范化。
i do not set up for being a cosmopolite , which to my mind signify is polite to every country except your own.
我不以世界主义者自居，那我意味著：除了自己的祖国以外，要对每一个国家有礼。
The love choices of Dramatis personae signify their political ideals, so a hero and a beauty beat a handsome scholar and a pretty girl.
主人公对爱情的选择象征着其政治理想的归属，英雄美人“打败”了才子佳人。
The sequence number used to signify the completion of the concurrent snapshot processing.
用于表示并发快照处理已完成的序列号。
These nouns signify the point at which something originates.
这些名词意指某物的起源。
In the diagram below, the notation "[0] DataObject" has been used to signify the first entry in the list of address DataObjects.
在下图中，“[0]DataObject”标记用于表示地址DataObjects列表中的第一个条目。
The scales signify the main personality trait of a Libran - equilibrium, harmony and balance.
天平标志着天秤座的主要个性特点：公平和平衡。
He bowed his head to signify he had understood what Shamil said.
他低头，以显示他已明白表示沙米利。
The emphasis on horseback operations is believed to signify a desire to emulate the warfare of the period of the Islamic conquests.
强调马背上的攻击据说是为了发出信号想要模仿伊斯兰征服时期的战斗。
Learn to smile to show joy or amusement, not to please others. Smiling at the wrong time can signify to others that you're a push over.
学着去微笑，从而表达你内心的喜悦，而不是去谄媚对方。在错误的时间微笑只能告诉别人，你是个热昏。
