词汇 | epiphany |
释义 | epiphany noun[ C or U ] literaryuk /ɪˈpɪf.ən.i/ us /ɪˈpɪf.ən.i/ a moment when you suddenly feel that you understand, or suddenly become conscious of, something that is very important to you(对重要事物的)顿悟 a powerful religious experience(对宗教真谛的)顿悟 Understanding and comprehending appreciation for something apprehend apprehensible apprehension astutely bear dot handle keep someone up know a hawk from a handsawidiom know the scoreidiom know/see where someone is coming fromidiom latch speak to get a handle on somethingidiom to have a handle on somethingidiom tumble to something tune in uncomprehending understanding Epiphany noun[ C or U ] uk /ɪˈpɪf.ən.i/ us /ɪˈpɪf.ən.i/ a Christian holy day in January (traditionally 6 January in Western Christianity) that celebrates the revelation of the baby Jesus to the world显现节,主显节(1月6日,纪念贤士朝拜耶稣的日子) Religious festivals advent All Saints' Day All Souls' Day ascension Ascension Day Day of the Dead Divali Diwali Easter Easter Day Hejira Hijrah holy day Holy Week Purim Ramadan Rosh Hashanah saint's day Shrove Tuesday the holiday season Examples of epiphanyepiphany Its title, too, is unfashionably downbeat, promising no fabulous journey to the centre of the mind, no explanation of consciousness, no epiphany. In other words, an epiphany occurs where the words and music 'speak to you', becoming something more than the sum of their parts. The first page illustrates the density and intensity, the monocular vision and instantaneous or near-instantaneous time of lyric epiphany. It is a marvellous epiphany, fully rewarding the faithful reader's labour. When will lyric epiphany be seen as a source for anthropology? Yet lyric epiphany is itself an implicit simile or analogy. It is almost as if the material conflict itself constitutes the epiphany. That was an eye-opening moment for me, an epiphany for me. An epiphany, then, is a showing forth of some kind. The internal organization of a chiasmic epiphany such as was sketched above is thus more of a breaking-into than a breaking-out-of. What is the relation between chiasmus and lyric epiphany? Gissing would not credit the average poor man or woman with the powers of discrimination that could lead to an aesthetic epiphany. There was no transfiguration of elite identity nor epiphany of brotherhood. In this discussion, lyric epiphany is explicated along two tracks that crisscross and head toward the same point. Over and above this cyclic structure several epiphanies materialize: spaces for meditation like vast caverns awaiting exploration. 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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