Superstition
[,suːpə'stɪʃ(ə)n;,sjuː-] or [,supɚ'stɪʃən]
解釋/意思:
(n.) An excessive reverence for, or fear of, that which is unknown or mysterious.
(n.) An ignorant or irrational worship of the Supreme Deity; excessive exactness or rigor in religious opinions or practice; extreme and unnecessary scruples in the observance of religious rites not commanded, or of points of minor importance; also, a rite or practice proceeding from excess of sculptures in religion.
(n.) The worship of a false god or gods; false religion; religious veneration for objects.
(n.) Belief in the direct agency of superior powers in certain extraordinary or singular events, or in magic, omens, prognostics, or the like.
(n.) Excessive nicety; scrupulous exactness.
杜威手打
同義詞及近義詞：
n. [1]. False religion, worship of false gods, irrational worship.[2]. Belief in omens.
哈伦校對
同義詞及反義詞：
SYN:Bigotry, fanaticism
ANT:Infidelity, skepticism, disbelief, rationalism, religion, devotion, worship,reason
布兰奇手打
解釋/意思:
n. excessive reverence or fear based on ignorance: excessive exactness in religious opinions or practice: false worship or religion: an ignorant and irrational belief in supernatural agency omens divination sorcery &c.: belief in what is absurd without evidence: rites or practices proceeding from superstitious belief or fear: over-nicety exactness too scrupulous or morbid.—adj. Supersti′tious pertaining to or proceeding from superstition: over-exact.—adv. Supersti′tiously.—n. Supersti′tiousness.
安吉拉校對
例句/造句/用法:
- A vague, very simple Christianity pervaded the illiterate peasant life, mixed with much superstition. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Whatever women may be, I thought that men, in the nineteenth century, were above superstition. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- My dear Jarndyce, returned Mr. Skimpole, I will do anything to give you pleasure, but it seems an idle form--a superstition. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- A plot organised among the Indians who originally owned the jewel, says Mr. Franklin-- a plot with some old Hindoo superstition at the bottom of it. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- Down superstition! 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- But do you not by every means encourage the superstition among those of the outside world? 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星戰神.
- Had I gone to him, he would have shown me all that was tender, and comforting, and gentle, in the honest Popish superstition. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- He accused the Greeks of superstition: what name did he give to the faith he lent to the predictions of Evadne? 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- If you saw a nymph you would go mad, remarked Maurice, alluding to the old Greek superstition. 福爾斯·休姆. 奇幻島.
- I then told him that I would cut my right arm off first, and mentioned this superstition. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- I do not ever remember to have trembled at a tale of superstition, or to have feared the apparition of a spirit. 瑪麗·雪萊. 弗蘭肯斯坦.
- It is such a conventional superstition, such parrot gabble! 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- It would be mere blind, besotted superstition. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- They became panicky and reverted to an ancient superstition. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- My old superstition clings to me, even yet. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- They had their undercurrent of fables and superstitions, their phases of fear and abjection and sacrificial fury. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- But both were, in those ignorant and superstitions times, easily credited as proofs of guilt. 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- I thought her too intelligent to be the slave of such absurd superstitions. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 純真年代.
- This is a kind of superstitious practice in civil laws, and in the laws of nature, resembling the Roman catholic superstitions in religion. 大衛·休謨. 人性論.
- There, I don't believe in old superstitions, but I'll do it. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
- In spite of all experience they cling desperately to these superstitions. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- Presently the dissensions of the schools let in the superstitions and prejudices of the city mob to scholastic affairs. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- If you want to impose a taboo upon a whole community, you must do it autocratically, you must make it part of the prevailing superstitions. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- Every one has his superstitions. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- That is one of the great American superstitions. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- There was to be no clinging to tawdry superstitions. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- That is but one of the superstitions which Issus has foisted upon a credulous humanity. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星戰神.
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