1. Or in Sir Thomas Browne's magnificent phrase, the speech of a community is for its members 'a hieroglyphical and shadowed lesson of the whole world'. 用托马斯·勃朗尼男爵的雄辩的话语来说:一个社会的语言对其成员来说就是一种关于整个世界的象形符号般的隐喻暗示的经验。
英英解释
adj.
1. resembling hieroglyphic writing
2. written in or belonging to a writing system using pictorial symbols