veneration

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n.  尊敬

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BNC.22507 / COCA.21317

柯林斯词典

• VERB 尊重;敬仰;崇敬
  If youveneratesomeone or something, you value them or feel great respect for them.
  1. My father venerated General Eisenhower.
     我父亲十分敬仰艾森豪威尔将军。

英英释义

noun

• religious zeal
  Synonym:idolatrydevotioncultism
• a feeling of profound respect for someone or something
  1. the fear of God
  2. the Chinese reverence for the dead
  3. the French treat food with gentle reverence
  4. his respect for the law bordered on veneration
  Synonym:fearreverenceawe

双语例句

• I acquired lasting respect for tradition and veneration for the past.
  我开始对传统和历史产生了持久的敬慕。
• The Olympics are not simply athletic championships, but embody a sense of honor, a sense of art and literature, and a veneration of beauty.
  奥林匹克运动会不仅仅是体育竞赛，它还包含着一种荣誉感和对美的崇敬，并且与文化艺术融为一体。
• Secular historians would link the veneration of Mary to the pre-Christian cult of female divinities, such as the Egyptians 'isis-who was conceived by her followers as a Madonna figure nursing a holy child-or the Romans' Diana.
  历史学家则把圣母玛丽的尊崇与某些基督教之前宗教的女性神祗联系起来，如埃及的伊西斯神；追随者心目中，她是哺育着神圣婴孩的女性形象。
• This scripture has always been held in the greatest veneration in Mahayana countries.
  这经文一直关押在大乘佛教国家的最大的尊敬。
• She was a tiny little woman to inspire so much veneration.
  一个像她那样身材纤细的女人居然能赢得我们如此尊敬。
• This change is remarkable, in light of extensive government efforts during that same time-period to extirpate veneration of Marian images, and to direct Christian worship to the written word.
  这个转变是值得注意的，就是在那个时期，根据政府的广大努力，消灭了玛丽亚肖像的崇拜，直接向耶稣祷告写入了法令。
• Feeling or manifesting veneration.
  感觉尊敬或表现出尊敬。
• Mother Theresa has become and object of widespread veneration because ofher unceasing work for the poor.
  特丽萨修道院院长因为不停地为穷苦人工作，已经成为广受敬仰的人。
• Protestants will not typically call the respect or honor that they may have for Mary veneration because of the special religious significance that this term has in the Catholic practice.
  新教徒对于玛丽亚崇拜方面，并不典型地称呼“尊重”或者“尊敬”，因为这个术语特别的宗教意义已经在天主教的实践里面了。
• On this showing, Catholic traditionalists would argue that there is no conflation of the human and divine levels in their veneration of Mary.
  这就表现出天主教传统会争论在他们崇拜的玛丽亚里面，并没有人神异文合并。