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Visitation God Formal Official Kind N Count 可数名词 People

英语单词 visitation
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.
  • The young people have claimed almost daily visitations from the Virgin Mary.

    这些年轻人说几乎每天都会看到圣母马利亚显圣。

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 .
  • They had another visitation from Essex police.

    埃塞克斯的警察再次拜访了他们。

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]
  • House-to-house visitation has been carried on, under the regulations of the General Board of Health...

    根据卫生委员会的规定,挨家挨户的探访持续进行了下去。

  • I had visitation rights.

    我有探视权。

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