Front | shrine |
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Pron | [ʃraɪn] |
Back | 【shrine】 n.圣地 There are many sacred shrines in the Near East. 在近东有许多古迹圣地。 |
Vocab | shrinea place of worship hallowed by association with some sacred thing or person
Set up some candles and a photograph of someone important in your life in the corner of a room where you spend time reflecting silently, and you've created a shrine. Shrine comes from the Latin scrinium meaning "case or box for keeping papers." Think of a shrine as a niche or case in which the spirit of someone special is kept. It could be a statue or some other form of commemoration to either a person or a relic. A shrine can be as small as a tiny mantel in your house or it can be as massive as a building commemorating, or shrining, a sacred person. All forms of 'shrine' will appear on average once every 415 pages. enshrine shrine |
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