| 词汇 | shrine |
| 释义 | shrine noun[ C ] uk /ʃraɪn/ us /ʃraɪn/ a place for worship that is holy because of a connection with a holy person or object: 圣地;神龛;圣坛;神殿 Islam's most sacred shrine is at Mecca in Saudi Arabia.伊斯兰教最神圣的圣殿位于沙特阿拉伯的麦加。 a special place in which you remember and praise someone who has died, especially someone famous: （尤指名人的）纪念之所 She's turned her bedroom into a shrine to the dead pop star and covered the walls with pictures of him.她把自己的卧室变成了纪念那位已故流行歌星的地方，墙上贴满了他的照片。 Religious buildings & places abbey abbey church ashram caliphate cathedral Delphic friary gurdwara hermitage holy city meeting house minster monastery mosque nunnery shul stupa synagogue tabernacle United Church of Canada You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Remembering people who have died shrine | American Dictionaryshrine noun[ C ] us/ʃrɑɪn/ a place where people come to worship, usually because of a connection with a holy person or a mysterious religious event or object A shrine can also be a place that is honored because of some connection with a famous person or event. Examples of shrineshrine The ' spirit shrines ' were frequently owned or controlled by specific communities and specialists, but with very different social outcomes across the region. Other ritual offerings were found associated with the shrines and buried beneath the eastern staircases. Interchangeable vehicles of gifts and sacred forces varied from charms, witch-substance, relics and shrines, or the body of the ritual specialist him/herself. Legends, surnames, and ancestral shrines all contribute to ensuring social rights. Why do we learn so little about women's shrines in a society known for relative female autonomy ? However, much controversy surrounds the question of who actually installed the shrines. On the one hand, this refusal suggests that the previous transfer of earth shrines had perhaps not been quite as ' voluntary ' as some narratives claim. Higher and lower degrees of connectedness are indicated by the placement of communal facilities and shrines. Women pray at naga shrines in hopes of conceiving a child. Home to a nomadic hippy, it was encrusted with a bristling baroque fantasy of plastic toys, plastic landscapes, silly scenes and shrines. In 1745, control of 440 sites outside the gates of temples and shrines and 227 cho within their precincts were transferred to the city magistrate. Still-born infants were brought to shrines for baptism - it seems that the ' miracle ' of resuscitation was not necessary. I question though the verb "chose"; in many attested cases the priests of those temples judged to be shrines were given no choice at all. The fact that shrines were present on the landscape certainly held meaning for people living in the neighbourhood. A large limestone boulder, 60 cm in height, had been set into the floor in the center of the shrine's interior chamber. See all examples of shrine 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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