| 英语单词 | heresy |
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| 英美音标 | 英 ['herəsi] 美 ['herəsi] |
| 中文释义 | n.异端;异教;反面观点 |
| 英语例句 | (1) The book has a tincture of heresy. (2) He was sentenced to be guilty of heresy. (3) At this defiant heresy, Mammy's brow lowered with indignation. (4) Every truth has geological strata,and you can't have an orthodoxy without a heresy. |
| 中文例句 | (1) 这本书稍有异端意味。 (2) 他被判犯有异端罪。 (3) 听了这番不伦不类的犟话,嬷嬷烦恼得皱紧了眉头。 (4) 每个真理都是有层次的,这世界没有错就没有对。 |
| vocabulary简明 | A heresy is a belief that doesn't agree with the official tenets of a particular religion; heresy is the maintaining of such contrary beliefs. |
| vocabulary扩展 | Heresy can be used figuratively: to disagree with the school committee's decisions is considered pure heresy by the faculty. You'll often come across this word in a religious context — the Latin root haeresis, "school of thought or sect," was used by Christian writers to mean "unorthodox sect or belief." This comes from the Greek hairesis, "a taking or choosing," from hairein, "to choose." A person who chooses to believe in heresies is called a heretic. |
| 柯林斯解释 | 1 [N-VAR 可变名词](与大多数人的观点不合的)异端,邪说 Heresy is a belief or action that most people think is wrong, because it disagrees with beliefs that are generally accepted.
2 [N-VAR 可变名词](与某种宗教的教义严重不合的)异教,异端,邪说 Heresy is a belief or action which seriously disagrees with the principles of a particular religion.
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