| 单词 | rite of passage |
| 释义 | rite of passage From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishrite of passagerite of passageSSYTRADITIONa special ceremony or action that is a sign of a new stage in someone’s life, especially when a boy starts to become a man → coming of age → riteExamples from the Corpusrite of passage• For many fans, metal, with its pile-driving sound and locker-room lyrics, is more than a rite of passage.• A rite of passage, as it were.• Boyhood pledges and rites of passage, boy pages learning skills of survival from men of iron.• Marriage, though not the social imperative it once was, still stands for a major rite of passage into adult life.• This idyllic feeling of romance seemed too much like a temporary state, a schoolboy rite of passage.• Finishing the race is the rite of passage of the distance runner.• One lucky trainee was spared the rite of passage. |
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