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

• But, in the US, a generalised attachment to liberty has somehow turned into an unquestioning veneration of the constitution that has become almost quasi-religious.
  但是在美国，凡事都扯上自由在某种程度上变成了一种对宪法的绝对崇拜，这差不多已经变成一种准宗教情结了。
• This statue is an object of religious veneration.
  这座塑像是宗教崇拜的对象。
• These adjectives mean having or showing a belief in and veneration for God or a divine power, especially as it is reflected in the practice of religion.
  这些形容词都意味着有或显示出对上帝或神圣力量的信仰和尊敬，特别反映在宗教行为上。
• I believe if there are three words in the English language for which she has a respect amounting almost to veneration, those words are, Dombey and Son.
  我相信，在我国的语言中，如有四个字她尊敬得几乎达到了崇拜的地步的话，那么这四个字就是董贝父子。
• He never separated the memory of this man from the memory of his father, and he associated them in his veneration.
  他从不把对这人的追念和对他父亲的追念分开来，他把他俩合并在他崇敬的心中。
• 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。
• You see a source of veneration with which Aristotle was held in the later medieval period.
  你就会发现亚里士多德，在中世纪后期有多受尊崇了。
• And happiness of the nation I have acquired an habitual attachment to it and veneration for it.
  及国家幸福的影响，我业已满怀喜爱之意，崇敬之情。
• Burning incense is a kind of offering, expressing gratitude and veneration to the Buddha.
  烧香是一种对佛陀表达感激及尊敬之情的供品。
• 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。