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。
• A religion native to Japan, characterized by veneration of nature spirits and ancestors and by a lack of formal dogma.
  日本本土的一种宗教，以其对自然中的神灵和祖先的尊敬为特征，该宗教没有正规的教义。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• Yet what is the fury of fans if not the flip side of veneration?
  但是在巴西球迷愤怒的另一面呢？
• I understand that this gentleman, your friend, is a man of honour and discretion. feeling or manifesting veneration.
  我想这位先生&你的朋友，是位值得尊敬和十分审慎的人。
• 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。
• It is inconceivable, the agony with which this public veneration tortured him!
  公众对他的景仰是如何折磨着他，那痛苦是难以想见的！