Sacred
['seɪkrɪd] or ['sekrɪd]
解释:
(adj.) (often followed by `to') devoted exclusively to a single use or purpose or person; 'a fund sacred to charity'; 'a morning hour sacred to study'; 'a private office sacred to the President' .
(adj.) concerned with religion or religious purposes; 'sacred texts'; 'sacred rites'; 'sacred music' .
(adj.) worthy of respect or dedication; 'saw motherhood as woman's sacred calling' .
整理:理查德--From WordNet
解释:
(a.) Set apart by solemn religious ceremony; especially, in a good sense, made holy; set apart to religious use; consecrated; not profane or common; as, a sacred place; a sacred day; sacred service.
(a.) Relating to religion, or to the services of religion; not secular; religious; as, sacred history.
(a.) Designated or exalted by a divine sanction; possessing the highest title to obedience, honor, reverence, or veneration; entitled to extreme reverence; venerable.
(a.) Hence, not to be profaned or violated; inviolable.
(a.) Consecrated; dedicated; devoted; -- with to.
(a.) Solemnly devoted, in a bad sense, as to evil, vengeance, curse, or the like; accursed; baleful.
格雷西校对
同义词及近义词：
a. [1]. Hallowed, holy, divine.[2]. Religious, not secular, not profane.[3]. Dedicated, devoted, consecrated.[4]. Inviolable, not to be profaned.[5]. Venerable, sainted.
杰西整理
同义词及反义词：
SYN:Holy, divine, hallowed, consecrated, religious, inviolable
ANT:Unholy, common, profane, unconsecrated
科尔校对
解释:
adj. set apart or dedicated esp. to God: made holy: proceeding from God: religious: entitled to respect or veneration: inviolable: devoted to destruction: opposed to secular as sacred music or history: not liable to punishment.—adv. Sā′credly.—n. Sā′credness.—Sacred ape the hanuman of India; Sacred beetle an Egyptian scarab; Sacred cat the house cat of Egypt sacred to Pasht; Sacred fish one of the fresh-water fishes of the Nile; Sacred Heart (R.C.) the physical heart of Christ adored with special devotion since the 18th century.
格雷戈里录入
娱乐性解释：
adj. Dedicated to some religious purpose; having a divine character; inspiring solemn thoughts or emotions; as the Dalai Lama of Thibet; the Moogum of M'bwango; the temple of Apes in Ceylon; the Cow in India; the Crocodile the Cat and the Onion of ancient Egypt; the Mufti of Moosh; the hair of the dog that bit Noah etc.
整理:罗德尼
例句:
- I cordially invite you, sir, to second my efforts in the sacred interests of the family. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- I said he was right there--never under my roof, where the Lares were sacred, and the laws of hospitality paramount. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
- It need hardly be remarked that his use both of Greek and of Roman historians and of the sacred writings of the Jews is wholly uncritical. 柏拉图. 理想国.
- It was but a hurried parting in a common street, yet it was a sacred remembrance to these two common people. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 艰难时事.
- Your lives and property are sacred and inviolable amongst one another until the end of time. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- I am imperfectly consoled for this disappointment by the sacred pledge, the perished flower. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
- We have seen that they would have been safer among the ancient heathens, with whom the rites of hospitality were sacred. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
- Were this my last hour of power, it should be an hour sacred to revenge and to pleasure--let new cares come with to-morrow's new day. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- In both regulations, the sacred rights of private property are sacrificed to the supposed interests of public revenue. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
- I did so, that I might kiss the dear and sacred earth he trod. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
- All these circumstances gave property a less fixed and sacred character. 柏拉图. 理想国.
- Well, if so much of unholy force can arise from below, may not an equal efflux of sacred essence descend one day from above? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
- Sir Leicester looks on at this invasion of the sacred precincts with an icy stare. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
- My sacred regard for truth is (thank God) far above my respect for persons. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
- I had no right to hear them, no right to answer them--they were the words that banished me, in the name of her sacred weakness, from the room. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- I will accept him as a trust, and it shall be a sacred one! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
- On the contrary, the Moors reverence cats as something sacred. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
- The party took note of the sacred spot, and moved on. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
- At the place where I planned to do this, I was (as nearly as I could calculate it) some three days distant, journeying on foot, from the sacred city. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
- Each stone deity was possessed by sacred gladness, and the eternal fruition of love. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
- The Israelites held them sacred in the old patriarchal times, and these other Arabs, their lineal descendants, do so likewise. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
- He would not allow old Athanasius to speak to me of sacred things, and I know nothing, save that there is an Almighty Being called God. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
- It had no temples, and since it had no sacrifices it had no sacred order of priests. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- As the sole remaining representatives of their decayed family, the persons of both were almost sacred in her eyes. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
- Not to intrude on the sacred mysteries of medicine, he took it, now (with the jury droop and persuasive eye-glass), that this was Merdle's case? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
- In this house, what grief could be sacred? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
- You should be Englishmen, said he; and yet, sacred Heaven! 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- Not a human creature, large or small, appeared in any part of the sacred seclusion. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- The birth of her daughter, embryo copy of her Raymond, filled up the measure of her content, and produced a sacred and indissoluble tie between them. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
- THE NARRATIVE OF THE TOMBSTONE Sacred to the Memory of Laura, Lady Glyde, wife of Sir Percival Glyde, Bart. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
整理:罗德尼