英语翻译图腾的定义图腾（totem）是原始人群体的亲属、祖先、保护神的标志和象征，是人类历史上最早的一种文化现象。社会生

Totem is a sign and symbol to primitive groups of their kinfolks, ancestors and patron saint. It is the most original cultural phenomena of human history, whose emergence is founded on low social productivity and primitive people's ignorance to nature. It usually can infer many other things from using totem to interprete mythology, classical recordation and folk-custom. Totem was used as a clannish emblem or symbol for primitive man who believed faithfully that certain animal or natural substance had kinship with the clan.
PS: “最早的”不能贸然用earliest（早的,初期的），用original(最初的, 原始的)应该比较接近了。

Totem was a symbol and token of relatives, ancesters and godess for primitive human communities, and the earliest cultural phenomenon in human history as well. Deficiency of social productivity plus i...

Totem was defined as a symbol and token of relatives, ancestors and saint for primitive group, which was regarded as an earliest cultural sign in human history. Totem was the outcome originated from u...