Observance
[əb'zɜːv(ə)ns] or [əb'zɝvəns]
解釋/意思:
(n.) The act or practice of observing or noticing with attention; a heeding or keeping with care; performance; -- usually with a sense of strictness and fidelity; as, the observance of the Sabbath is general; the strict observance of duties.
(n.) An act, ceremony, or rite, as of worship or respect; especially, a customary act or service of attention; a form; a practice; a rite; a custom.
(n.) Servile attention; sycophancy.
手打:洛伊斯
同義詞及近義詞：
n. [1]. Performance, fulfilment, discharge, acquittal.[2]. Form, ceremony, ceremonial, rite, practice, custom, usage, fashion.
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同義詞及反義詞：
SYN:Attention, fulfilment, respect, celebration, performance, ceremony, custom,form, rule, practice
ANT:Inobservance, inattention, breach, disrespect, disregard, desuetude, disuse,non-performance, informality, ceremoniousness, omission,
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例句/造句/用法:
- Meess Lucie has regarded this ceremony as too frivolous to be honoured by her observance. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- Another large part of his recorded utterances is aimed against the meticulous observance of the rules of the pious career. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- The Churchills might not have a word to say in return; but then, you would have no habits of early obedience and long observance to break through. 簡·奧斯丁. 愛瑪.
- I recollect but one occasion when this observance seemed to be broken by the inhabitants. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- They promised faithful observance of directions. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- Nothing is more vigilant and inventive than our passions; and nothing is more obvious, than the convention for the observance of these rules. 大衛·休謨. 人性論.
- The facts in each case so frequently create an exception to the general rule that such rule must be honored rather in its breach than in its observance. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- If so, his better nature pronounced the vow more honoured in the breach than in the observance, for with a second effort, he spoke. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- Of course I felt my good faith involved in the observance of his request. 查理斯·狄更斯. 遠大前程.
- His characteristic talk, with its keen observance of detail and subtle power of inference held me amused and enthralled. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯回憶錄.
- Nine o'clock was an early hour for a visit, but Selden had passed beyond all such conventional observances. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 快樂之家.
- It was primarily a religion of conduct, not a religion of observances and sacrifices. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
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