friar

pronunciation

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  • n.
    (天主教的)男修士
    化缘修士

Word Origin

friar 天主教托钵修士

来自古法语frere, 兄弟,词源同fraternity, 兄弟会。用来指宗教团体托钵修士会。

Example

1. In 1517 a friar named tetzel was traveling through germany selling indulgences to help finance it .
公元1517年,一名叫做特策尔的天主教修士为了资助自己的旅行在德国出售赎罪券。
2. By 1614 , a dominican friar named tommaso caccini preached openly against galileo , calling the copernican worldview heretical .
到1614年的时候,一个叫tommasocaccini的多米尼加修士公开反对伽利略,称哥白尼的世界观是异端邪说。
3. The face of a kneeling friar is barely glimpsed in a darkness that speaks of inner searching , of the long night of the soul .
在黑暗中,跪着的修士若隐若现的面颊向我们诉说着在灵魂的长夜中的内省。
4. Hufflepuff house is haunted by the fat friar , who was executed because senior churchmen grew suspicious of his ability to cure the pox merely by poking peasants with a stick , and his ill-advised habit of pulling rabbits out of the communion cup .
赫奇帕奇学院是胖修士的出没地,他因为仅用手杖戳以下下农民就能治愈瘟疫的能力以及从圣餐杯里把兔子拽出的不谨慎行为受到了牧师的怀疑而被处死。

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