| 词汇 | abbey |
| 释义 | abbey noun[ C ] uk /ˈæb.i/ us /ˈæb.i/ a building where monks or nuns live or used to live. Some abbeys are now used as churches: 大修道院;大寺院;大教堂 Westminster Abbey威斯敏斯特大教堂 We glimpsed the ruined abbey from the windows of the train.透过火车车窗，我们瞥见了修道院的废墟。 The abbey was completely rebuilt in 1503 after it had been destroyed by fire. The town's fame rests on its beautiful 14th-century abbey. The abbey was recently restored after decades of disuse. We walked through the ruins of the abbey. Religious buildings & places abbey church ashram caliphate cathedral chapel friary gurdwara hermitage holy city minster monastery mosque nunnery pagoda stupa synagogue tabernacle the Holy See United Church of Canada vicarage You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Religious people: monks & nuns abbey | American Dictionaryabbey noun[ C ] us/ˈæb·i/ a building for monks (= religious men) or nuns (= religious women) to live in Examples of abbeyabbey Apparently, the abbey had suffered from the loss of seasonal pastures, a recurring but disastrous phenomenon. The cry went up among the abbey party that the mayor intended to remove the sanctuary men. The abbey was to achieve a much clearer victory in 1120. Some bishops accumulated the revenues from six large abbeys. From the mid-fourteenth century the abbey's manors had been farmed out wholesale including demesne, rent roll and court perquisites. The first three houses were abbeys, the last a priory. Most of the original windows of the abbey have been filled with masonry, so lighting conditions in the interior can be difficult. There are a number of possible reasons for the abbey's surprising absence from most religious histories of the period. In my view, a comparison with the creation of abbeys is inappropriate. While the abbey could thus expect to come under the gaze of the political nation, it also exerted a more direct influence over the locality. Commercial life was also stimulated by the abbey. Stevens took the opportunity to complain of the abbey's alleged transgressions. That the abbey did not accept this offer is a clear indication of its long-term priorities regarding policy. They targeted the abbey because the saint's jurisdiction adjoined their minster and presumably in the hope of its patronage. The abbeys were not reserved for the clergy, they were distributed among the nobility, to women and even to children as additional sources of income. These 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. |
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