单词 | convent |
释义 | convent (kɒnvənt ) Word forms: convents 1. countable noun A convent is a building in which a community of nuns live. 2. countable noun A convent is the same as a convent school. Quotations: The convent, which belongs to the West as it does to the East, to antiquity as it does to the present time, to Buddhism and Muhammadanism as it does to Christianity, is one of the optical devices whereby man gains a glimpse of infinityLes Misérables I like convents, but I wish they would not admit anyone under the age of fifty Collocations: enter a convent She gives up a medical career to enter a convent. Times, Sunday Times Why did she enter the convent? Times, Sunday Times He proposed either to pay her dowry so that she might enter a convent, or offered her marriage. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 When the relationship was discontinued in 1710, she asked to enter a convent, bu t was refused permission. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 However, new nuns were not allowed to enter the convent. 28 nuns still lived in the monastery in 1812. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Her worsening health did not allow her to remain a nun, however, and she eventually had to leave the convent. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Still, she was compelled several times to leave the convent and return to the court. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 When they leave the convent, however, their lives follow two very different paths. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 She would become disillusioned and leave the convent in 1969. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The friars only professed conjugal chastity, but not everlasting, and because of this they could leave the convent and marry. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Translations: Chinese: 女修道院 Japanese: 女子修道院 |
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