Shrine
[ʃraɪn]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) a place of worship hallowed by association with some sacred thing or person.
校對:菲利斯--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) A case, box, or receptacle, especially one in which are deposited sacred relics, as the bones of a saint.
(n.) Any sacred place, as an altar, tromb, or the like.
(n.) A place or object hallowed from its history or associations; as, a shrine of art.
(v. t.) To enshrine; to place reverently, as in a shrine.
班森編輯
同義詞及近義詞：
n. Altar, place of worship, sacred place.
整理:鲁道夫
解釋/意思:
n. a case or reliquary for relics: a sacred place: an altar: anything hallowed by its associations.—v.t. to enshrine.—adj. Shrī′nal.
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例句/造句/用法:
- It is a priest of Juno that stands before me, watching late and lone at a shrine in an Argive temple. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- Here, on the night when the shrine was completed, Vishnu the Preserver appeared to the three Brahmins in a dream. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- He had gathered and he had given flowers; he had offered a sentimental, a poetic tribute at the shrine of Love or Mammon. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- To speak truth, I compromised matters; I served two masters: I bowed down in the houses of Rimmon, and lifted the heart at another shrine. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- A strain of plaintive music, played on stringed instruments, and flutes, recalled my attention to the hidden shrine. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- And the Brahmins caused the prophecy to be written over the gates of the shrine in letters of gold. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- All these relics gave to the third storey of Thornfield Hall the aspect of a home of the past: a shrine of memory. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- A new strain of music, loud and jubilant, rose from the hidden shrine. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- Here, in a new shrine--in a hall inlaid with precious stones, under a roof supported by pillars of gold--the moon-god was set up and worshipped. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- The candles flared and guttered before her, and the wax ex-votos hung about the shrine. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- And burning to lay herself upon the shrine of sisterly devotion, she sat down to settle that point. 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
- Can I,' said Mr. Jingle, fixing his eyes on the aunt's face--'can I see--lovely creature--sacrificed at the shrine--heartless avarice! 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- Yet, stay for a while, O Power of goodness and strength; disdain not yet this rent shrine of fleshly mortality, O immortal Capability! 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- That church, whose dark, half-ruinous turrets overlooked the square, was the venerable and formerly opulent shrine of the Magi. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- Already it has done me good: my heart was a sort of charnel; it will now be a shrine. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- The only priests of these Aryans are the keepers of shrines and sacred places. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Here and there, on the fronts of roadside inns, we found huge, coarse frescoes of suffering martyrs like those in the shrines. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- In three separate directions, they were to set forth as pilgrims to the shrines of India. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- Thy shrines, thy palaces, thy city walls have fallen, and fallen too art thou. 福爾斯·休姆. 奇幻島.
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