Anoint
[ə'nɒɪnt] or [ə'nɔɪnt]
解释:
(verb.) administer an oil or ointment to ; often in a religious ceremony of blessing.
(verb.) choose by or as if by divine intervention; 'She was anointed the head of the Christian fundamentalist group'.
班森编辑--From WordNet
解释:
(v. t.) To smear or rub over with oil or an unctuous substance; also, to spread over, as oil.
(v. t.) To apply oil to or to pour oil upon, etc., as a sacred rite, especially for consecration.
(p. p.) Anointed.
安娜校对
同义词及近义词:
v. a. [1]. Smear, rub over with oil or unctuous matter.[2]. Consecrate by unction.
编辑:谢恩
解释:
v.t. to smear with ointment or oil: to consecrate with oil.—n. Anoint′ment the act of anointing or state of being anointed.—The Anointed the Messiah.
手打:奈杰尔
娱乐性解释:
v.t. To grease a king or other great functionary already sufficiently slippery.
布莱恩录入
例句:
- One of these slaves shall maintain the fire beneath thee, while the other shall anoint thy wretched limbs with oil, lest the roast should burn. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- You can anoint it also with urine. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
- No voice would have had wing enough to rise above the uproar, and Mr. Brooke, disagreeably anointed, stood his ground no longer. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
- He only seemed to say, Defile not Heaven's anointed with unsanctified hands. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
- So Pepin was chosen king at a gathering of the Frankish nobles in the Merovingian capital Soissons, and anointed and crowned. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- And so when we have anointed him with myrrh, and set a garland of wool upon his head, we shall send him away to another city. 柏拉图. 理想国.
- Near by is a circular railing which marks the spot where the Virgin stood when the Lord's body was anointed. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
- Soon a rill of clear oil trickled from the carcases, whereupon Clym dipped the corner of his handkerchief into the liquid and anointed the wound. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
- There is a vague belief abroad, that the beef suet with which he anoints his hair gives him unnatural strength, and that he is a match for a man. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
整理:特蕾西