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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
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

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)
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

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 epiphany


epiphany
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.
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