veneration

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n.  尊敬

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BNC.22507 / COCA.21317

柯林斯词典

• VERB 尊重;敬仰;崇敬
  If youveneratesomeone or something, you value them or feel great respect for them.
  1. My father venerated General Eisenhower.
     我父亲十分敬仰艾森豪威尔将军。

英英释义

noun

• religious zeal
  Synonym:idolatrydevotioncultism
• a feeling of profound respect for someone or something
  1. the fear of God
  2. the Chinese reverence for the dead
  3. the French treat food with gentle reverence
  4. his respect for the law bordered on veneration
  Synonym:fearreverenceawe

双语例句

• She was a tiny little woman to inspire so much veneration.
  一个像她那样身材纤细的女人居然能赢得我们如此尊敬。
• Mother Theresa has become and object of widespread veneration because ofher unceasing work for the poor.
  特丽萨修道院院长因为不停地为穷苦人工作，已经成为广受敬仰的人。
• Feeling or manifesting veneration.
  感觉尊敬或表现出尊敬。
• He never separated the memory of this man from the memory of his father, and he associated them in his veneration.
  他从不把对这人的追念和对他父亲的追念分开来，他把他俩合并在他崇敬的心中。
• The Olympics are not simply athletic championships, but embody a sense of honor, a sense of art and literature, and a veneration of beauty.
  奥林匹克运动会不仅仅是体育竞赛，它还包含着一种荣誉感和对美的崇敬，并且与文化艺术融为一体。
• These adjectives mean having or showing a belief in and veneration for God or a divine power, especially as it is reflected in the practice of religion.
  这些形容词都意味着有或显示出对上帝或神圣力量的信仰和尊敬，特别反映在宗教行为上。
• It is inconceivable, the agony with which this public veneration tortured him!
  公众对他的景仰是如何折磨着他，那痛苦是难以想见的！
• That Tholomyes is astounding," said the others, with veneration," what trousers!
  这个多罗米埃真是特别，”大家都肃然起敬地那样说，“他竟穿那样的裤子！
• But, in the US, a generalised attachment to liberty has somehow turned into an unquestioning veneration of the constitution that has become almost quasi-religious.
  但是在美国，凡事都扯上自由在某种程度上变成了一种对宪法的绝对崇拜，这差不多已经变成一种准宗教情结了。
• I believe if there are three words in the English language for which she has a respect amounting almost to veneration, those words are, Dombey and Son.
  我相信，在我国的语言中，如有四个字她尊敬得几乎达到了崇拜的地步的话，那么这四个字就是董贝父子。