| 单词 | altar |
| 释义 | altar (ɔːltəʳ ) Word forms: altars 1. countable noun An altar is a holy table in a church or temple. ...the high altar at Chichester Cathedral. 2. be sacrificed on the altar of something phrase [VERB inflects, oft PHR n] If you say that someone or something is sacrificed at the altar of another thing, you mean they suffer or are destroyed because of that thing. Often it feels as though value has been sacrificed at the altar of slick marketing. Idioms: be sacrificed on the altar of something to suffer unfairly or be harmed because of a particular set of ideas or an activity They agreed that the interests of twelve million farmers could not be sacrificed on the altar of free trade. Easy Learning Idioms Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers Collocations: church altar The duo investigate after remains are discovered ablaze on a church altar. Times, Sunday Times The size could also indicate that the image was meant to be enshrined at a church altar, hence its dimensions. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Only part of its church altar survives today. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The new church altar faced front while the old church altar had taken up the entire back wall. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The activities of both groups around their church altars, including the yearly processions, were discontinued. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 An enclosure containing the sacrificial altar surrounded these chambers. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 In antiquity, it was used as a pagan sacrificial altar. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 There are also traces of a sacrificial altar on which cattle were sacrificed. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 What appears to be a sacrificial altar has also been found. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The remains include a high podium, cross-shaped crypt, stairway and sacrificial altar. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Translations: Chinese: 祭坛 Japanese: 祭壇 |
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