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Earthly Reason Life Material Spiritual Earth Adj 形容词

英语单词 earthly
英美音标 英 ['ɜːθli] 美 ['ɜːrθli]
中文释义 adj.地球的;俗世的;可能的
英语例句 (1) You have reached the apex of earthly honour.
(2) In this earthly life nothing is perfect.
(3) We are bankrupt of earthly treasures.
(4) They have not an earthly chance to win.
中文例句 (1) 你已经达到世界上荣誉的顶点。
(2) 在我们现世的生活中,没有什么是完美无缺的。
(3) 我们失去了尘世间的所有珍宝。
(4) 他们根本没有希望得胜。
vocabulary简明 If you believe in an afterlife, you probably realize that making lots of money is only an earthly concern, and not something that matters in heaven.
vocabulary扩展 Religious believers make the distinction between earthly problems and things that are far more important in the long term. Usually, these earthly worries have to do with material things, like jobs, money, cars, and houses — rather than spiritual concerns like love, faith, and beauty. The word earth is at the root of earthly, and you can think of it as "things that only matter to humans on the Earth."
柯林斯解释
1
[ADJ 形容词]尘世的;世间的;人世的 Earthly means happening in the material world of our life on earth and not in any spiritual life or life after death.
  [ADJ n]
  • ...the need to confront evil during the earthly life...

    需要在尘世生活中直面邪恶

  • They lived in an earthly paradise.

    他们生活在人间天堂。

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[ADJ 形容词](用于no earthly reason等短语中表示强调)根本,绝对 Earthly is used for emphasis in phrases such as no earthly reason. If you say that there is no earthly reason why something should happen, you are emphasizing that there is no reason at all why it should happen.
  [ADJ n]
  [emphasis]
  • There is no earthly reason why they should ever change...

    他们完全没有必要作出改变。

  • What earthly reason would they have for lying?...

    他们到底为什么要撒谎呢?

  • There's no earthly use saying it isn't true.

    说它不是真的根本没有用。

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