signify的意思

signify

英式音标['sɪɡnɪfaɪ]
美式英标['sɪgnɪfaɪ]

基本解释

vt. 表示；意味；预示

vi. 有重要性；要紧；冒充内行

signify 预示，表明，表达，表示

sign,标记，记号，-fy,使。引申诸相关词义。

signify (v.): late 13c., "be a sign of, indicate, mean," from Old French signifier (12c.), from Latin significare "to make signs, show by signs, point out, express; mean, signify; foreshadow, portend," from significus (adj.), from signum "sign" (see sign (n.)) + root of facere "to make" (see factitious). Intransitive sense of "to be of importance" is attested from 1660s. Meaning "engage in mock-hostile banter" is American English black slang first recorded 1932.
...'signifying,' which in Harlemese means making a series of oblique remarks apparently addressed to no one in particular, but unmistakable in intention in such a close-knit circle. ["Down Beat," March 7, 1968]

1. The striped band round a policeman's sleeve is to signify that he is on duty.: 警察袖子上的袖标标明他正在执勤.

2. The UN flag was raised at the airport yesterday to signify that control had passed into its hands.: 昨天机场升起了联合国的旗帜，表明控制权已移交给联合国了。

3. State ownership in itself does not signify collective control.: 国家所有本身并不意味集体控制.