| 英语单词 | ascetic |
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| 英美音标 | 英 [ə'setɪk] 美 [ə'setɪk] |
| 中文释义 | adj.禁欲的 n.苦行者 |
| 英语例句 | (1) This is achieved by strict celibacy and ascetic practices. (2) Rabia went into the desert to pray and became an ascetic. |
| 中文例句 | (1) 这要通过严厉的独身生活和禁欲修行而达到。 (2) 随后拉比尔走进沙漠祈祷,从此成为苦行者。 |
| vocabulary简明 | Want to live an ascetic lifestyle? Then you better ditch the flat panel TV and fuzzy slippers. To be ascetic, you learn to live without; it's all about self-denial. |
| vocabulary扩展 | Ascetic is derived from the Greek asketes, meaning “monk,” or “hermit.” Later that became asketikos, meaning “rigorously self-disciplined,” which gives us the Modern English ascetic. Ascetic can be a noun: a person with incredible self-discipline and the ability to deprive herself, or an adjective that describes such a people or their lifestyle. |
| 柯林斯解释 | 1 [ADJ-GRADED 能被表示程度的副词或介词词组修饰的形容词](通常因为宗教信仰)苦行的,禁欲的 An ascetic person has a way of life that is simple and strict, usually because of their religious beliefs. [usu ADJ n]
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