monastery
英 ['mɒnəst(ə)rɪ]
美['mɑnəstɛri]
- n. 修道院；僧侣
词态变化
复数: monasteries;
中文词源
monastery 修道院，隐修院
来自希腊语monasterion,来自monos,单个的，独自的，词源同monk.-terion,表地点。即一个人住的地方，后用于指修道院，隐修院。
英文词源
- monastery
- monastery: see monk
- monastery (n.)
- c. 1400, from Old French monastere "monastery" (14c.) and directly from Late Latin monasterium, from Ecclesiastical Greek monasterion "a monastery," from monazein "to live alone," from monos "alone" (see mono-). With suffix -terion "place for (doing something)." Originally applied to houses of any religious order, male or female.
双语例句
- 1. In 1857 Mendel started experimenting with peas in his monastery garden.
- 1857年，孟德尔开始在修道院的菜园里用豌豆做实验。
来自柯林斯例句
- 2. The privations of monastery life were evident in his appearance.
- 从他的外表来看可以明显看出修道院生活的清贫。
来自柯林斯例句
- 3. The monastery is in a remote mountain pass.
- 那个修道院在一个偏远的山口中。
来自柯林斯例句
- 4. The monastery has taken in 26 refugees.
- 修道院已经收留了26位难民。
来自柯林斯例句
- 5. They found an icon in the monastery.
- 他们在修道院中发现了一个圣像.
来自《简明英汉词典》
