Nativity
[nə'tɪvɪtɪ] or [nə'tɪvəti]
解釋/意思:
(n.) The coming into life or into the world; birth; also, the circumstances attending birth, as time, place, manner, etc.
(n.) A picture representing or symbolizing the early infancy of Christ. The simplest form is the babe in a rude cradle, and the heads of an ox and an ass to express the stable in which he was born.
(n.) A representation of the positions of the heavenly bodies as the moment of one's birth, supposed to indicate his future destinies; a horoscope.
整理:斯特拉
同義詞及近義詞:
n. Birth.
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例句/造句/用法:
- The inventor was Alexander Graham Bell, by nativity a Scotchman, then a resident of Canada, and finally a citizen of the United States. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- The Church of the Nativity is almost as well packed with exceeding holy places as the Church of the Holy Sepulchre itself. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
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