| 英语单词 | visitation |
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| 英美音标 | 英 [ˌvɪzɪ'teɪʃn] 美 [ˌvɪzɪ'teɪʃn] |
| 中文释义 | n.访问;视察;探视;苦难;天罚 |
| 英语例句 | (1) You should come in through the door to the visitation room. (2) We had sundry visitations from the Tax Inspector. (3) The famine was a visitation of God for their sins. (4) The peasants thought that the storm was a visitation. |
| 中文例句 | (1) 你应当从通往来访室的门进来。 (2) 税务检查员常来我们这里,不胜其烦。 (3) 那次饥荒算是上帝对他们罪孽的惩罚。 (4) 农民们认为这场暴风雨是上帝对人们的惩罚。 |
| vocabulary简明 | Use the noun visitation to describe a formal or official visit, like the city health inspector's yearly visitation to your favorite pizza place. |
| vocabulary扩展 | A visitation often includes some kind of evaluation or inspection, or has some other formal aspect. Meeting with a prisoner might be described as a visitation, and the official scheduled time that divorced parents have with their children are also a kind of visitation. Another meaning of the word is "calamity," or "disaster," especially one of Biblical, plague-like proportions: "The town faced a visitation of unbearably hot temperatures for three weeks." |
| 柯林斯解释 | 1 [N-COUNT 可数名词](上帝等神灵的)显现,出现 A visitation is an event in which God or another non-human being seems to appear to someone or contact them.
2 [N-COUNT 可数名词]视察;巡视;光临;到访(幽默的说法) People sometimes refer humorously to a visit from someone, especially from someone in authority, as a visitation .
3 [N-UNCOUNT 不可数名词](正式的)访问,探访,视察 Visitation is the act of officially visiting someone. [usu with supp] [FORMAL 正式]
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