单词 | cult |
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音标 | [kʌlt] |
解释 | n.宗派;崇拜 |
红宝书 | 【英】 n. 宗派 (a system of religious worship);崇拜(devotion to a person or principle) 【记】 主要考第二义 【例】 ancient tribal cult. /the leadership cult |
字源 | cult (n.) 1610s, "worship," also "a particular form of worship," from French culte (17c.), from Latin cultus "care, labor; cultivation, culture; worship, reverence," originally "tended, cultivated," past participle of colere "to till" (see colony). Rare after 17c.; revived mid-19c. with reference to ancient or primitive rituals. Meaning "devotion to a person or thing" is from 1829. Cult. An organized group of people, religious or not, with whom you disagree. [Rawson] |
不择手段背单词 | n. (对某人、原则或事的过分的、趋附时尚的)狂热崇拜; 异教, 邪教(极端的、伪造的宗教派别, 追随者在一个独裁的、有性格魅力的领袖领导下过着不循惯例的生活, 比如法轮功) 【记】cult读: 靠他: 这里主要指在心灵上的依靠, 法轮功弟子们把他妈(本想用X来代替, 不过这种人就该骂! )李宏志当作神来狂热崇拜, 妄图依靠他获得圆满, 但是我们的新一代领导人在我们的国家主席江泽民的带领下...(不贫了! 继续! ) |
趣味全助记 | 【记】是种culture 文化,只有前一半,所以是特殊的文化,常指非正统的被主流视为异端的小教派。谈到异端,实际上一些正统的历史上也曾是被视为异端的小宗派,如被犹太教视为异端的基督教,及中世纪从后者分离出的新教 【相关】cultivate 种植,培养,修习,sect 宗派,教派 |
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