Deity
['deɪɪtɪ;'diːɪ-] or ['deəti]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) any supernatural being worshipped as controlling some part of the world or some aspect of life or who is the personification of a force.
錄入:库尔特--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) The collection of attributes which make up the nature of a god; divinity; godhead; as, the deity of the Supreme Being is seen in his works.
(n.) A god or goddess; a heathen god.
整理:瓦莱丽
同義詞及近義詞:
n. [1]. Divinity, Godhead, the Divine Nature.[2]. (Myth.) God or goddess.
费利西亚編輯
解釋/意思:
n. the divinity: godhead: a god or goddess: the Supreme Being.
杰里米整理
例句/造句/用法:
- These fine differences about the constitution of the Deity interwove with politics and international disputes. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Deity unquestioned, thine essence foils decay! 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- Each stone deity was possessed by sacred gladness, and the eternal fruition of love. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- Now, he continued, again addressing me, I have received the pilgrim--a disguised deity, as I verily believe. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- May not the relation of sight to this deity be described as follows? 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- The eyes of deity were appraising me. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星戰神.
- One of the earliest known figures of a deity is that of a hippopotamus goddess, and so very distinctively African. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Second--The Deity. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- Your deity is the deity of foreign aristocracies; analyze the blue blood of Spain! 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- If I had ever before been an Atheist, I should now have been convinced of the being and government of a Deity! 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.
- The same imperfection attends our ideas of the Deity; but this can have no effect either on religion or morals. 大衛·休謨. 人性論.
- As one man we moved, an irresistible fighting mass, over the bodies of dead and dying foes toward the gorgeous throne of the Martian deity. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星戰神.
- As is usual with bright natures, the deity that lies ignominiously chained within an ephemeral human carcase shone out of him like a ray. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
- There's a good deal of truth in what you say, observed Justinian serenely; but I should have thought your deity was Hermes. 福爾斯·休姆. 奇幻島.
- No; that is no deity, but a mortal maiden whom I saw at Melnos. 福爾斯·休姆. 奇幻島.
- What, if the more potent of these fraternal deities should obtain dominion over it? 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- Of all the deities worshipped in the temple, the moon-god alone escaped the rapacity of the conquering Mohammedans. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- As little can I believe the narrative of his insolence to Apollo, where he says, 'Thou hast wronged me, O far-darter, most abominable of deities. 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- In a dim light, and with a slight rearrangement of her hair, her general figure might have stood for that of either of the higher female deities. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
- O Titaness among deities! 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- It was in the time of the heathen deities, who used occasionally to take people at their words, with a promptness, in some cases, extremely awkward. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
校對:卢埃林