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Piety Filial Religious Great Devoted Latin Adjective 英

英语单词 piety
英美音标 英 ['paɪəti] 美 ['paɪəti]
中文释义 n.虔诚;孝顺
英语例句 (1) The old man has great piety towards God.
(2) We are not deceived by their pretenses to piety.
(3) Filial piety and parental love bind family members together.
(4) Historically speaking ,our ancestors placed great emphasis on filial piety.
中文例句 (1) 这位老人对上帝非常虔诚。
(2) 我们不会被他们伪装的虔诚所欺骗。
(3) 孝顺与父母之爱使家人紧紧相连。
(4) 历史上,我们的祖先很重视孝顺。
vocabulary简明 Piety is devotion to God or to religious practices. Nuns who pray all day long are famous for their piety. If you have filial piety it means you're devoted to your parents.
vocabulary扩展 Piety is sometimes used in a disapproving way to mean that the person is only pretending to be devoted or good. Piety was borrowed from French pieté "piety, pity," from Latin pietas, from pius "devoted, kind." This Latin adjective is the source of our English adjective pious.
柯林斯解释
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[N-UNCOUNT 不可数名词]虔诚;虔敬 Piety is strong religious belief, or behaviour that is religious or morally correct.

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