Temporal

[tempәrәl]

解釋/意思:

(adj.) of this earth or world; 'temporal joys'; 'our temporal existence' .

(adj.) not eternal; 'temporal matters of but fleeting moment'- F.D.Roosevelt .

(adj.) of or relating to the temples (the sides of the skull behind the orbit); 'temporal bone' .

(adj.) of or relating to or limited by time; 'temporal processing'; 'temporal dimensions'; 'temporal and spacial boundaries'; 'music is a temporal art' .

校對:马里恩--From WordNet

解釋/意思:

(a.) Of or pertaining to the temple or temples; as, the temporal bone; a temporal artery.

(n.) Of or pertaining to time, that is, to the present life, or this world; secular, as distinguished from sacred or eternal.

(n.) Civil or political, as distinguished from ecclesiastical; as, temporal power; temporal courts.

(n.) Anything temporal or secular; a temporality; -- used chiefly in the plural.

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同義詞及近義詞：

a. [1]. Worldly, terrestrial, mundane, secular, of this world, of this life, not spiritual, not ecclesiastical.[2]. Transient, fleeting, TEMPORARY.

整理:凯瑟琳

同義詞及反義詞：

SYN:Secular, worldly, civil, political, transient, fleeting, laical, terrestrial,sublunary, mundane

ANT:Religious, spiritual, ecclesiastical, eternal, sacerdotal

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解釋/意思:

adj. pertaining to time esp. to this life or world—opposed to eternal: worldly secular or civil—opposed to sacred or ecclesiastical.—n. Temporal′ity what pertains to temporal welfare: (pl.) secular possessions revenues of an ecclesiastic proceeding from lands tithes and the like.—adv. Tem′porally.—n. Tem′poralness.—adv. Tem′porarily.—n. Tem′porariness.—adjs. Tem′porary Temporā′neous for a time only: transient.—n. Temporisā′tion.—v.i. Tem′porise to comply with the time or occasion: to yield to circumstances.—ns. Tem′poriser; Tem′porising.—adv. Tem′porisingly.

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