| 词汇 | example_english_worldly |
| 释义 | Examples of worldlyThese examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. In indigenous thought, full ' this-worldly ' personhood implied bodily capacities, not as an aspect of itself but as the precondition to enter and sustain social relationships. No curtains, frills, or decorations, or worldly objects like clothes, jewels, and mirrors, were allowed. The absoluteness of this feeling ' represents' an absolute - infinite, non-worldly, absolutely simple and all-powerful - object. Moreover, within religious communities, worldly goods were equalized and diminished in order to lessen the distractions of temporal comforts and to deny them. Plagued by 'worldly misfortunes',57 the monks are in dire need of financial support. The royal marriage also symbolized peace, and the greater triumphs of peace and love over the vicissitudes of lesser, worldly victories. In the process they became worldly, and some became wise. In the classroom, students were more concerned with examinations and worldly rather than other-worldly matters. Her moral failings, since they were expected, inevitable, and quite familiar to worldly men, were also unthreatening. Two further elements contribute to convey a rather worldly picture of the nuns' lifestyle. Unlike those that attempt to impact on the here-and-now, a growing number of created languages exists for other-worldly reasons. They can also be extended to refer to people who are without worldly ties. Although scientific research begins with quite tangible manipulation of worldly objects, it is designed to produce increasingly contextindependent inscriptions. Her nascent prima-donna passion for worldly success makes her lover jealous, and he begs her to forget fame and glory to follow him. We seem to cross a blurred border between events on a human scale and events on a more worldly, environmental scale. In short, it is not given as a worldly, and hence finite, object in relation to which some sense of freedom would be possible. The worldly temptation of the chaplain's substantial salary was recongured as sacrice. Evangelicals' piety and concern for the afterlife did not entirely inure them from worldly attachments, such as feelings of patriotism. The same preoccupation with this-worldly concerns is evident in her efforts to establish schools, orphanages, hospitals and other institutions to serve society's various needs. After his conversion he tried to escape from worldly affairs and yet remained too useful to be allowed to retire into a monastery. The tomb contained a bed and various worldly treasures and was covered over with a house. Despite the strong belief in ancestors, death did signify ' this-worldly ' loss and deprivation. Of course such a parallel draws on a larger paradigm - that of the demented, transcendent or other-worldly artist. He was not an unworldly academic: as a successful director of the geophysical observatory, he must have acquired many worldly skills. Recent writers continue to undermine the stereotype of a torpid, unduly worldly establishment. Such activity is not the result of intra-worldly causes and thus is linked with genuine human freedom. Nonetheless, the 'this-worldly ' approach retains its hold throughout, most notably in what is his lengthiest reflection on immortality. If indeed you are in good health, the worldly losses will not shake us as much. Students and newspapers testified to such paramount concerns for the worldly. The worldly variant presented itself as a way of dispelling loneliness and melancholy, derangement and mania, and of heightening the festive spirit in group gatherings. What does emerge from the hostile way in which some people spoke is that a discussion had started about the use of worldly melodies. A shared understanding implies intersubjective interpretation of the three aspects of social reality, or 'worldly relations'. The whole being of the actor keeps, in this human world, traces of other-worldly dealings. Music moves in and pushes out, creating routes of circulation by which an individual may negotiate and work through worldly experience. Does the market create a society more oriented to this-worldly or other-worldly concerns? Worldly leaders were suspect, and that suspicion led to expansive notions of civil liberty for the subject and an implied equality of consequences for all. The flesh is our bodily nature subject to corruption and determination by intra-worldly causes. Associated with this captivity or constraint is an understanding of oneself as merely receptive, that is, as simply reacting to intra-worldly causes. Because social justice is about the distribution of social goods, whereas religion is concerned with other-worldly goods. We too perceive our worldly home as ruined and desecrated, and we too assume there is a connection between our fallen nature and nature's fall. As noted above, the ideals and values of apostolic spirituality served to redirect religious sentiment into worldly activities. His problem was that the 'worldly' sound-images he relied on can only be described (aesthetically) as bargain-basement rather than designer-label. More generally, time, place and person are the fundamental components of any worldly situation whatever, and a core concern of phenomenological enquiry. Besides, political disfavour could herald the loss of one's worldly possession, mainly through witchcraft accusations. Others understood and sympathised with his worldly preoccupations. Back on earth like the mortal ones, he touches their longing hands, and soon pulls the worldly clothing from off his body, reinventing himself in pure, all-white silk. He suggests that worldly motives (career prospects, marriage, escape from difficulties, factional alienation) may sometimes have been relevant, and that for some serial converts jumping ship became a habit. Autonomous moral action, on the other hand, is possible only insofar as we are free, that is insofar as our motives for action are not determined by intra-worldly causes. Thus immersed in worldly concerns, the imperial servant could likewise strive to remain inwardly free, having through constant selfexamination and struggle subdued his own inner passions and appetites. Music lifts off from the surface of life: it cannot be concerned with depiction or description of worldly reality even though its points of departure are frequently found there. Such a systemic analysis appears to reify culture into a separate yet metaphysical entity, which gives rise to the solid and worldly phenomenon of material culture. Indeed, it was the genius of the church as an institution that it existed as the primary platform for the expression of instincts that were simultaneously worldly and spiritual. The elm, however, represents worldly men. The chief object was spiritual : ' we come not to better their worldly condition, but to save their immortal souls ' ;43 nevertheless their ' worldly condition ' was not ignored. The key to understanding perception and cognition is, according to shepard, the creation, by way of evolution, of representations of universals, invariances consisting of worldly properties tuned to survival. He is talking about someone who comes to a particular relation with the universe, a relation in which the usual worldly standards are seen as exposed and hollow. Furthermore, in reaching this conclusion he finds it unnecessary to consider religious doctrines concerning an afterlife ; the problem of evil is disposed of appealing only to this-worldly considerations. The word 'simple' is used misleadingly and often at the start of the book, in a manner that will make the worldly-wise tighten their seat belts. In his youth he had prayed for a disease which would restrain his carnal desire, without rendering him indignum et inutilem in mundanis rebus ('unworthy and useless in worldly affairs'). Nuns were urged to forget the privileges and social status that they had enjoyed outside the convent, and the use of worldly titles such as ' lady ' or ' madam ' was forbidden. Religions create their own communities; they do not necessarily follow the rules of the worldly ones, even at the outer rings of overlapping consensus and practice. The warning here is clear: the workingclass poet who becomes too invested in political issues is bound to suffer in both the worldly and spiritual realms. Despite his very generous salary, he is to be admired for giving up his worldly aspirations, which would no doubt have provided an extraordinary degree of class mobility. The missionary's role by denition is to reconstitute domesticity and empire in such a way that both transcend the worldly even as they are the world. Indeed, this reconfiguration at times collided directly with phrenology and propelled the hybrid techniques and knowledges into a this-worldly and quotidian purpose centring on the self. Towards a critical, worldly literacy. The worldly support the contemplative. They feel quite certain that it is not worldly wisdom to leave the position as it is. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Nothing was done that could possibly injure this vicar in his worldly affairs, in his office, or his pitifully small stipend. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Obviously you have here many of the worldly attributes of a religion, though a godless religion. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 While university students are the best educated and may be the most intelligent, they are far the least worldly-wise. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 She has explained the position from the womanly point of view and from a worldly point of view. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I enjoy worldly goods and like to see other people enjoying them, too. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 On marriage a husband promises to share all his worldly goods, but this solemn promise in church has no legal sanction whatsoever. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Their accommodation was completely destroyed, and with it was destroyed all my constituents' worldly possessions—everything that they owned. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 With their worldly wisdom the courts of law have said that we must presume that postcards are read in transmission. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Is it not still possible, as an act of ordinary worldly wisdom, now to concentrate the troops on those two ships? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They translate into legislative terms the promise that was made at marriage to share worldly goods. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 In fact, all their worldly possessions which they regard as having some cash value would have gone. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They give everything away, all their worldly goods, their property and their hopes. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English Obviously, the best defence against the powers of irrationalism and fanaticism is to strengthen the worldly aspects of the state and legal democratic order. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English People in our surgeries were in tears, afraid of not being able to pay that debt and wondering what would happen to their worldly goods. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I went to his private room and found it in darkness, and had the worldly wisdom not to go in. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I do not know whether in those days, as now, the husband on marriage undertook to endow his wife with all his worldly goods. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Such a definition covers any belief in an ideal, future, this-worldly and collective state, and thus any movement with such a belief. She has no wish to do worldly things. The river front was a relatively worldly place for driving and walking by, but also for lingering in. Like all worldly things, it belonged under secular authority. To put it briefly, angelic sin was the first sin and, therefore, the model for all sin and the source of worldly evil. Finally, it should be noted that studying experience in its worldly context provides the framework without which it is impossible to understand neurophysiological data. Education in the expanding government school and college system had widened their horizons, while, at the same time raising their expectations of worldly advancement. In part, this was a conventional rhetorical strategy designed to separate the bookish and divine from the illiterate and worldly. The promptings of worldly ambition never disturbed the serenity of his mind. In the eighteenth century the main regions were the divine, worldly, and human regions. In my view, the practical and political context of science is profoundly affected by the living-worldly status of scientific entities. Consequently, there is an ad hoc quality to these theorists' claims that humans are absolutely free, independent, and rational in their actions in worldly matters. As a result, it placed religious significance upon everyday-worldly activity. Worldly people speak soft words like butter and those who have not wisdom to discern what they are after are deceived and fall. 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