Reverence
['rev(ə)r(ə)ns] or ['rɛvərəns]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) an act showing respect (especially a bow or curtsy).
(noun.) a reverent mental attitude.
(verb.) regard with feelings of respect and reverence; consider hallowed or exalted or be in awe of; 'Fear God as your father'; 'We venerate genius'.
简錄入--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) Profound respect and esteem mingled with fear and affection, as for a holy being or place; the disposition to revere; veneration.
(n.) The act of revering; a token of respect or veneration; an obeisance.
(n.) That which deserves or exacts manifestations of reverence; reverend character; dignity; state.
(n.) A person entitled to be revered; -- a title applied to priests or other ministers with the pronouns his or your; sometimes poetically to a father.
(v. t.) To regard or treat with reverence; to regard with respect and affection mingled with fear; to venerate.
佛瑞德整理
同義詞及近義詞：
n. Veneration, honor, homage, adoration, awe.
v. a. Revere.
阿奇校對
同義詞及反義詞：
SYN:Honor, awe, veneration, adoration, deference, devotion, respect, worship,homage
ANT:Dishonor, contempt, slight, irreverent, contumely, contumacy
手打:莫林
娱乐性解釋/意思：
n. The spiritual attitude of a man to a god and a dog to a man.
布赖恩特編輯
例句/造句/用法:
- Whether truth--be it religious or moral truth--speak eloquently and in well-chosen language or not, its voice should be heard with reverence. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- And in ages to come we will reverence them and kneel before their sepulchres as at the graves of heroes. 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- Tycho Brahe had a great reverence for Copernicus, but he did not accept his planetary system; and he fe lt that advance in astronomy depended on painstaking observation. 李貝. 西洋科學史.
- Well, at any rate, I revoke what I said this morning--that you Milton people did not reverence the past. 伊莉莎白·蓋斯凱爾. 南方與北方.
- At one point in the service a bell would be rung and a mirror lifted up, while the whole congregation, in an access of reverence, bowed lower. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- On the contrary, the Moors reverence cats as something sacred. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- Mr. Higgins, I trust, whatever else you have given up, you believe'--(Mr. Hale's voice dropped low in reverence)--'you believe in Him. 伊莉莎白·蓋斯凱爾. 南方與北方.
- But they left it in limbo, they reverenced it, and they passed by. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- He was no mocking-bird of praise, to try because another extolled what he reverenced and passionately loved, to outdo him in laudation. 伊莉莎白·蓋斯凱爾. 南方與北方.
- So that what course save one was there now left for any son who reverenced his mother's memory as Yeobright did? 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
- I liked to read what they liked to read: what they enjoyed, delighted me; what they approved, I reverenced. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- The therns worshipped the hideous plant men and the apes, or at least they reverenced them as the abodes of the departed spirits of their own dead. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星戰神.
整理:彼得