Puritan
['pjʊərɪt(ə)n] or ['pjʊrɪtən]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) someone who adheres to strict religious principles; someone opposed to sensual pleasures.
(noun.) a member of a group of English Protestants who in the 16th and 17th centuries thought that the Protestant Reformation under Elizabeth was incomplete and advocated the simplification and regulation of forms of worship.
达斯汀錄入--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) One who, in the time of Queen Elizabeth and the first two Stuarts, opposed traditional and formal usages, and advocated simpler forms of faith and worship than those established by law; -- originally, a term of reproach. The Puritans formed the bulk of the early population of New England.
(n.) One who is scrupulous and strict in his religious life; -- often used reproachfully or in contempt; one who has overstrict notions.
(a.) Of or pertaining to the Puritans; resembling, or characteristic of, the Puritans.
整理:莫尼卡
解釋/意思:
n. one aiming at greater strictness in religious life esp. one of a religious and political party having such aims in the time of Elizabeth and the Stuarts.—adj. pertaining to the Puritans.—adjs. Pūritan′ic -al like a Puritan: rigid: exact.—adv. Pūritan′ically.—v.i. Pūr′itanise.—n. Pūr′itanism a puritan manner of life: strictness of life: simplicity and purity of worship: the notions or practice of Puritans.
校對:斯坦顿
例句/造句/用法:
- My little English Puritan, I love Protestantism in you. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- In ordinary life, he was a strict Puritan--a silent, gloomy fellow. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歸來記.
- Billiards was the game of the aristocracy and the Puritan hated not only the aristocrat, but the style and color of his clothes, the cut of his hair, as well as the games he played. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- There began a puritan reaction in Mecca and Medina against the levity and luxury of Damascus. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- These latter are called Puritan spoons. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- In the days of Cromwell, billiards had been tabooed by the Puritan, not on moral grounds, but rather political. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- Differences in religious method and in ideas of toleration led to the separation of the three other Puritan colonies from Massachusetts. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- The Puritans were done with. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- The Puritans tried to choke the craving for pleasure in early New England. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- The English puritans, restrained at home, fled for freedom to America, and established there the four governments of New England. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
手打:罗谢尔