| 英语单词 | ordained |
|---|---|
| 英美音标 | 英 [ɔː'deɪn] 美 [ɔːr'deɪn] |
| 中文释义 | vt.任命;授以圣职;命令;注定 vi.颁发命令 |
| 英语例句 | (1) He was an ordained priest. (2) She was ordained the first woman priest of her church. (3) The emperor ordained that all foreigners be expelled. (4) The judge ordained that he should pay the debts. (5) Fate had ordained that he should die in poverty. |
| 中文例句 | (1) 他被委任为牧师。 (2) 她被委任为她教会的第一位女牧师。 (3) 皇帝下令将所有外国人驱逐出境。 (4) 法院判决由他偿还债务。 (5) 命中注定他得死于贫困。 |
| vocabulary简明 | Ordained means invested with the authority to act as a priest. Once you are ordained as a priest, you are ready to take over that little country church and start tending to the flock. |
| vocabulary扩展 | Ordained comes from the root meaning "order," and when you are ordained, you're brought into the religious order, or group of church leaders. We also use ordained for declarations. If it has been ordained that all people must now wear plastic birds in their hair, then that new fashion command has been declared by an authority. Sometimes people talk about fate as "what has been ordained." |
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