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

• 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。
• A memorial was erected in veneration of the dead of both world wars.
  兴建一座纪念碑以纪念两次世界大战的死者。
• The orthodox distinguish between worship and veneration but do not accept a sort of "hyper"-veneration only for the theotokos.
  东正教也对崇拜和尊敬作出了区分，但并不接受一种“宣传人员”仅是对神的母亲的尊敬。
• Feeling or manifesting veneration.
  感觉尊敬或表现出尊敬。
• 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。
• 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。
• I remember vividly another evening, when something led us to talk of dante's veneration for virgil.
  我记得很清楚，另一天晚上，不知什么使我们谈起但丁对维吉尔的崇拜。
• 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。
• 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。