| 词汇 | cathedral |
| 释义 | cathedral noun[ C ] uk /kəˈθiː.drəl/ us /kəˈθiː.drəl/ A2 a very large, usually stone, building for Christian worship. It is the largest and most important church of a diocese: （一个教区内的）总教堂，大教堂 Salisbury Cathedral索尔兹伯里大教堂 Simone Simone/Moment/GettyImages I was woken up by the chimes of the cathedral bells.我被大教堂的钟声唤醒。 The old city around the cathedral is the most colourful part of town.环绕大教堂的老城区是该城最饶有趣味的地方。 A guide conducts tours of the cathedral every afternoon at 2.00.每天下午2点一位导游会带游客参观大教堂。 The new cathedral was completed and consecrated in 1962. In the cathedral vaults the air was dank and stale.大教堂的地窖里空气湿冷并带有霉味。 Religious buildings & places abbey abbey church ashram caliphate chapel friary gurdwara hermitage holy city minster monastery mosque nunnery pagoda stupa synagogue tabernacle the Holy See United Church of Canada vicarage cathedral | American Dictionarycathedral noun[ C ] us/kəˈθi·drəl/ a large and important church, esp. one that is the center of a large area Examples of cathedralcathedral Not much less challenging was accommodating within this structure the cathedrals and the wide variety of clergy holding offices in them. They likewise acquired distinctively civic overtones as cathedral clerics employed them in honour of local patron saints. There is illuminating discussion of the cathedral cemetery (illustrated in both modern and sixteenthcentury plans), and the possible positioning of burials in it. The respective rights of bishops, chapters of canons, and others, to ring cathedral bells were carefully defined. Since then at least eight other cathedrals have been similarly memorialised and several other cathedral histories are currently in the process of being written. The seventythree plates are black-and-white photographs, most of them well-produced, and plans of five of the cathedrals treated in the text. The juxtaposition of railway station and cathedral represented, like the placement of the paintings and sculpture, the ambivalence of the nineteenth century. In the seventeenth century there was a pronounced return to cathedrals as burial places. Likewise, they built chapels within their palaces, thereby appropriating a personal sacred space to replace that lost to the canons in the cathedral. The close links with the government can be seen in the types of people recruited to the cathedral priory. Their discussion of the cathedral door makes another point, however. It is an improper way of carving up the cathedral, not a functional feature that is being used for something other than its intended function. So on the whole the cathedral clergy and its noble families were responsible for the economic support of the chapter. Almost all the main furnishings of the cathedral are included. Ximenes aimed to use the cathedral both as the center of his cartographical grid and as an instrument of solar physics. 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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