Convent
['kɒnv(ə)nt] or ['kɑnvɛnt]
解释:
(noun.) a religious residence especially for nuns.
(noun.) a community of people in a religious order (especially nuns) living together.
安东尼娅手打--From WordNet
解释:
(v. i.) A coming together; a meeting.
(v. i.) An association or community of recluses devoted to a religious life; a body of monks or nuns.
(v. i.) A house occupied by a community of religious recluses; a monastery or nunnery.
(v. i.) To meet together; to concur.
(v. i.) To be convenient; to serve.
(v. t.) To call before a judge or judicature; to summon; to convene.
阿伦编辑
同义词及近义词：
n. Monastery, cloister, abbey, priory, nunnery.
录入:鲁道夫
解释:
n. an association of persons secluded from the world and devoted to a religious life: the house in which they live a monastery or nunnery.—adj. Convent′ual belonging to a convent.—n. a monk or nun; a member of one of the two divisions of the Franciscans following a mitigated rule—the other being the Observants.
哈迪编辑
娱乐性解释：
To dream of seeking refuge in a convent, denotes that your future will be signally free from care and enemies, unless on entering the building you encounter a priest. If so, you will seek often and in vain for relief from worldly cares and mind worry. For a young girl to dream of seeing a convent, her virtue and honestly will be questioned.
艾娜录入
娱乐性解释：
n. A place of retirement for woman who wish for leisure to meditate upon the vice of idleness.
卡尔顿手打
例句:
- They thought much more of alighting at the convent door, and warming themselves at the convent fire. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
- Ghostly deep as is the stillness of this convent, it is only eleven. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
- It had been a Cistercian Convent in old days, when the Smithfield, which is contiguous to it, was a tournament ground. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
- Darkness, outstripping some visitors on mules, had risen thus to the rough convent walls, when those travellers were yet climbing the mountain. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
- There went a tradition that Madame Beck's house had in old days been a convent. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
- Heloise entered a convent and gave good-bye to the world and its pleasures for all time. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
- In his seat he had nothing of the awkwardness of the convent, but displayed the easy and habitual grace of a well-trained horseman. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- I have composed many a homily on her back, to the edification of my brethren of the convent, and many poor Christian souls. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- The sisters in the convent used to tell me of a day of judgment, when everything is coming to light;--won't there be vengeance, then! 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
- She was a child again--and had wandered back through a forty years' wilderness to her convent garden. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
- Here, however, in this land of convents and confessionals, such a presence as his was not to be suffered with impunity in a pensionnat de demoiselles. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
- The pauper and the miser are as free as any in the Catholic Convents of Palestine. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
- Have you then convents, to one of which you mean to retire? 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- The castles, churches and convents of the middle ages had their often highly ornamental locks and their warders to guard and open them. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
- Among them are manuscripts from the archives of nearly two thousand families, monasteries and convents. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
- The Catholic Convents are a priceless blessing to the poor. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
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