Pagan
['peɪg(ə)n] or ['pegən]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) a person who follows a polytheistic or pre-Christian religion (not a Christian or Muslim or Jew).
錄入:梅林达--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) One who worships false gods; an idolater; a heathen; one who is neither a Christian, a Mohammedan, nor a Jew.
(n.) Of or pertaining to pagans; relating to the worship or the worshipers of false goods; heathen; idolatrous, as, pagan tribes or superstitions.
手打:斯坦
同義詞及近義詞:
n. Heathen, gentile, idolater.
a. Heathenish, heathen.
整理:马库斯
同義詞及反義詞:
SYN:Heathen, idolater, Gentile
ANT:Believer, Christian
SYN:Heathenish, idolatrous
ANT:Christian
杰拉尔德編輯
解釋/意思:
n. a heathen: one who does not worship the true God.—adj. heathenish: pertaining to the worship of false gods.—v.t. Pā′ganise to render pagan or heathen: to convert to paganism.—adj. Pā′ganish heathenish.—n. Pā′ganism heathenism: the beliefs and practices of the heathen.
整理:莫顿
例句/造句/用法:
- These pagan Saxons and English of the mainland and their kindred from Denmark and Norway are the Danes and Northmen of our national histories. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- God forbid, said Lucas Beaumanoir, that Jew or Pagan should impeach us of injustice! 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- It is eighty feet high and is fronted like some fantastic pagan temple. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- One is the profanation of a temple of our faith--the other only the profanation of a pagan one. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- Is that not rather pagan? 福爾斯·休姆. 奇幻島.
- You would describe yourself as a mere pagan philosopher, I said. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- The defiant and pagan bonnet-grec had vanished: bare-headed, he came upon us, carrying a Christian hat in his gloved hand. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- Another in fluence tending to check the advance of the sciences was the clash between Christ ian and Pagan ideals. 李貝. 西洋科學史.
- But shall white men and Christians act like a pagan negro? 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.
- It is possible that the influence of a return to classic Greek pagan literature in bringing about this changed mind has been overestimated. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- In Mercia in particular the pagan Northmen found sympathy and help. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- The myth is not one of the outgrown crudities of our pagan ancestors. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- Ah, we all worship those old pagan gods, who were but the incarnation of our own desires. 福爾斯·休姆. 奇幻島.
- The name of this old pagan's god was Compound Interest. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- If Christianity was a rebellious and destructive force towards a pagan Rome, it was a unifying and organizing force within its own communion. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Ay, truly, said the hermit, and many a hundred of pagans did he baptize there, but I never heard that he drank any of it. 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- Christians, Pagans, Jews, as well as Moslems, were employed in the government service. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- As the Christian propaganda of Charlemagne swept towards the shores of the North and Baltic seas, the pagans were driven to the sea. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- No, no, Mr Roylands, we are not pagans, in spite of the presence of the gods, he said, with a smile. 福爾斯·休姆. 奇幻島.
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