Cardinal
['kɑːd(ɪ)n(ə)l] or ['kɑrdɪnl]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) crested thick-billed North American finch having bright red plumage in the male.
(noun.) a variable color averaging a vivid red.
(noun.) (Roman Catholic Church) one of a group of more than 100 prominent bishops in the Sacred College who advise the Pope and elect new Popes.
(adj.) serving as an essential component; 'a cardinal rule'; 'the central cause of the problem'; 'an example that was fundamental to the argument'; 'computers are fundamental to modern industrial structure' .
(adj.) being or denoting a numerical quantity but not order; 'cardinal numbers' .
艾德里安整理--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(a.) Of fundamental importance; preeminent; superior; chief; principal.
(a.) One of the ecclesiastical princes who constitute the pope's council, or the sacred college.
(a.) A woman's short cloak with a hood.
(a.) Mulled red wine.
整理:纳特
同義詞及近義詞:
a. Principal, chief, main, leading, most important.
錄入:维维恩
解釋/意思:
adj. denoting that on which a thing hinges or depends: principal; of a deep scarlet colour like a cardinal's cassock.—n. one of the seventy princes of the church constituting the sacred college at Rome to whom pertains the right of electing a new pope: a short cloak formerly worn by ladies.—ns. Car′dinalate Car′dinalship the office or dignity of a cardinal; Car′dinal-bird a species of grosbeak one of the finest song-birds of America probably so called from its red plumage.—adv. Car′dinally fundamentally: (Shak. Measure for Measure II. i. 81) carnally.—Cardinal flower (see Lobelia); Cardinal numbers numbers expressing how many; Cardinal points the four chief points of the compass—north south east and west; Cardinal virtues justice prudence temperance fortitude so called because the whole of human nature was supposed to hinge or turn upon them—the natural as distinguished from the theological virtues.
整理:莱斯利
娱乐性解釋/意思:
It is unlucky to dream you see a cardinal in his robes. You will meet such misfortunes as will necessitate your removal to distant or foreign lands to begin anew your ruined fortune. For a woman to dream this is a sign of her downfall through false promises. If priest or preacher is a spiritual adviser and his services are supposed to be needed, especially in the hour of temptation, then we find ourselves dreaming of him as a warning against approaching evil.
乔安娜錄入
例句/造句/用法:
- Prudence was never a cardinal virtue of the Kentucky boy. 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
- An other piece of commonplace knowledge--the cardinal points of the compass--may be accepted, likewise, without inquiry or without recognition of its importance. 李貝. 西洋科學史.
- From this starting-point I proceeded to step, having first taken the cardinal points by my pocket-compass. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯回憶錄.
- Why man, one would think you were Cardinal Wolsey. 哈裡特·威爾遜. 哈裡特·威爾遜回忆录.
- Ye have plundered my mails--torn my cope of curious cut lace, which might have served a cardinal! 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- Limerick is still a cardinal memory in the long story of Irish embitterment. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Mo dern excavations have demonstrated that the sides or the corners of the temples and palaces of Assyria and Babylonia were directed to the four cardinal points of the compass. 李貝. 西洋科學史.
- Cardinal Mazarin was himself building upon a foundation that Cardinal Richelieu, the contemporary of King James I of England, had prepared for him. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- One was a bronze image of the Duc de Richelieu, grand-nephew of the splendid Cardinal. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- An attempted revival was made under Louis XIV by Cardinal Richelieu. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- Charles on his way from Spain to Germany visited England and secured the support of Henry against Francis by bribing his minister, Cardinal Wolsey. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- He also visited Rome, where he was received with the greatest good-will by Pope Paul V and his cardinals, and where he met the leading scientists of the capital. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- Many of the cardinals were of French origin, and their habits and associations were rooted deep at Avignon. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- In another, a barber, an abbot, and two cardinals. 喬納森·斯威夫特. 格列佛遊記.
- He knelt before ten cardinals in scarlet, an assembly august enough to overawe truth itself, while he amended the creation he had disarranged. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
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