Offering
['ɒf(ə)rɪŋ] or ['ɔfərɪŋ]
解釋/意思:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Offer
(n.) The act of an offerer; a proffering.
(n.) That which is offered, esp. in divine service; that which is presented as an expiation or atonement for sin, or as a free gift; a sacrifice; an oblation; as, sin offering.
(n.) A sum of money offered, as in church service; as, a missionary offering. Specif.: (Ch. of Eng.) Personal tithes payable according to custom, either at certain seasons as Christmas or Easter, or on certain occasions as marriages or christenings.
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同義詞及近義詞：
n. Sacrifice, oblation.
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同義詞及反義詞：
[See OFFER_and_OBLATION]
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娱乐性解釋/意思：
To bring or make an offering, foretells that you will be cringing and hypocritical unless you cultivate higher views of duty.
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例句/造句/用法:
- From then on scarcely a day passed that did not bring its offering of game or other food. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
- I don't wish to throw away my time and trouble on an offering you would deem worthless. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- She stood by the table, not offering to sit down. 伊莉莎白·蓋斯凱爾. 南方與北方.
- Nay, he was bringing home the goose as a peace-offering to his wife. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歷險記.
- With a significant grin Malone produced his pistols, offering one to each of his brethren. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- But he suffered Mr Casby to go out, without offering any further remark, and then took a peep at him over the little green window-blinds. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- I declined offering an opinion, fearing to do harm. 哈裡特·威爾遜. 哈裡特·威爾遜回忆录.
- I have kept that in mind, and I have heard something that may relieve you on that score--may show you that no sin-offering is demanded from you there. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- I followed my aunt with a modest medicinal peace-offering, in the shape of a bottle of salts. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- Many people write asking his opinion as to a certain invention, or offering him an interest in it if he will work it out. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- I envied no girl her lover, no bride her bridegroom, no wife her husband; I was content with this my voluntary, self-offering friend. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- The note was written in the terms which one gentleman would use to another after offering some deep insult. 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
- I listened to my father in silence, and remained for some time incapable of offering any reply. 瑪麗·雪萊. 弗蘭肯斯坦.
- It may have been thrown into the sea as an offering to the British Admiralty. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Fact being, I presume, that Mr. Bounderby the Banker does _not_ reside in the edifice in which I have the honour of offering this explanation? 查理斯·狄更斯. 艱難時事.
- These offerings of affection were of a most various and eccentric description. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- If this were to be the ruling of Providence, he was cast out from the temple as one who had brought unclean offerings. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- The long train of offerings followed: all the pupils, sweeping past with the gliding step foreigners practise, left their tributes as they went by. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- Even more natural than to provide a wife for a god is to give him a house to live in to which offerings can be brought. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- The men filled the mosques; the women, veiled, hastened to the tombs, and carried offerings to the dead, thus to preserve the living. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
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