1·I carry shells for the feel of them: their lightness, smoothness and dryness, like a totem to be touched as I walk.
我之所以带着这些蜗牛壳是因为我对它们有这样的感觉：它们轻便，光滑和干燥，就像一个我徒步中要触摸的图腾一样。
2·They can then use the game totem to initiate a new game.
他们可以使用该游戏图腾启动新的游戏。
3·In the North American gallery of the British Museum, among the magnificent feather headdresses, and in a case beside the totem poles, is a very interesting bit of rubbish indeed.
在大英博物馆的北美洲展馆部分，众多五彩缤纷的羽毛头饰与华丽壮观的图腾柱中间，一颗不起眼却很有趣的小“垃圾”静静地躺在一个小展台上。
4·Dashan: Oh, look. We've just passed a totem pole.
大山：嘿，看，我们刚经过了一个图腾柱。
5·And visitors standing alone in the fields of thistle and long grass looking at the “Cooling Tower” or at Mr. Shchetinin’s silvery field of totem poles, “Golden Toros, ” might agree.
游客可能也会赞同波利斯基先生，只要他们还在孤零零站在蓟丛和高草里看着“冷却塔”，或是看着Shchetinin先生的银色图腾柱田，看着“金色公牛”。