英语单词 | secular |
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英美音标 | 英 ['sekjələ(r)] 美 ['sekjələr] |
中文释义 | adj.世俗的;现世的;不朽的;非宗教的 n.牧师;凡人 |
英语例句 | (1) The choir sings both sacred and secular music. (2) Secular music was flatly prohibited. (3) Even in such secular, permissive countries as Sweden, doctors tell surveys they oppose euthanasia by large margins. |
中文例句 | (1) 唱诗班既唱圣乐也唱世俗歌曲。 (2) 世俗音乐是绝对禁止的。 (3) 即使在瑞典这样一个开化的国家,大部分的医生告诉调查者他们反对安乐死。 |
vocabulary简明 | Secular things are not religious. Anything not affiliated with a church or faith can be called secular. |
vocabulary扩展 | Non-religious people can be called atheists or agnostics, but to describe things, activities, or attitudes that have nothing to do with religion, you can use the word secular. Public schools are secular, but Catholic schools are not. Grocery stores are secular; a synagogue is not. If there's no religion involved, then you're in "the secular world" — as people sometimes call everything that exists outside of religion. |
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]世俗的;现世的;非宗教的 You use secular to describe things that have no connection with religion. [usu ADJ n]
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