Creed
[kriːd] or [krid]
解釋/意思:
(v. t.) A definite summary of what is believed; esp., a summary of the articles of Christian faith; a confession of faith for public use; esp., one which is brief and comprehensive.
(v. t.) Any summary of principles or opinions professed or adhered to.
(v. t.) To believe; to credit.
手打:莉莎
同義詞及近義詞:
n. Belief, tenets, dogmas, doctrines, system of opinions, summary of belief.
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同義詞及反義詞:
SYN:Belief, catechism, articles, confession, subscription
ANT:Protest, abjuration, recantation, retractation, disbelief, nonsubscription
整理:玛丽
例句/造句/用法:
- I could not blame them, for I knew how strong a hold a creed, however ridiculous it may be, may gain upon an otherwise intelligent people. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星戰神.
- No creed possesses any final sanction. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- In these later days there is in fact, a decided loosening in the creed. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- The creed of a Rousseau, for example, is active in politics, not for what it says, but for what people think it says. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- The creed, as I should state it now, was this. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- They may continue to practice some of its moral teachings and hold to some of its creed, but the Christian impulse is for them no longer active. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- The night is over, the day breaks clear— Such is your creed, my friend. 福爾斯·休姆. 奇幻島.
- Another creed! 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- The feeling that man is a creature and not a creator is disastrous as a personal creed when you come to act. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- At ease with him, I could defend my creed and faith in my own fashion; in some degree I could lull his prejudices. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- About the same time he married, restored the money that had long been owing, and formulated his ethical code and religio us creed. 李貝. 西洋科學史.
- Opposition to slavery was not a creed of either political party. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U.S.格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- I walk by another creed, light, faith, and hope than you. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- It is more penetrating, in my opinion, to ask of a creed whether it served than whether it was true. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- It marks the exact definition of Christian teaching by the Nicene Creed. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Political creeds must receive the same treatment. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- Jean-Jacques is in fact a supreme case--perhaps even a slight caricature--of the way in which formal creeds bolster up passionate wants. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- His constructions, his formal creeds, his law-making and social arrangements are local and temporary--for us they can have only an antiquarian interest. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- We are just beginning to see how creeds are made. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- The new effort proposes to fit creeds and institutions to the wants of men, to satisfy their impulses as fully and beneficially as possible. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- Few tombs on earth command the veneration of so many races and men of divers creeds as this of Joseph. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- What Nietzsche has done here is, in his swashbuckling fashion, to cut under the abstract and final pretensions of creeds. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- Suppose we recognize that creeds are instruments of the will, how would it alter the character of our thinking? 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- The religious investigations of William James were a study, not of ecclesiastical institutions or the history of creeds. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- The men like Nietzsche and James who show the wilful origin of creeds are in reality the best watchers of the citadel of truth. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- Mr. Zimmern's approach is common enough in modern scholarship, but the full significance of it for the creeds we ourselves are making is still something of a novelty. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
錄入:特伦特