| 单词 | earthly |
| 释义 | earthly (once / 293 pages) adj If you believe in an afterlife, you probably realize that making lots of money is only an earthly concern, and not something that matters in heaven. Religious believers make the distinction between earthly problems and things that are far more important in the long term. Usually, these earthly worries have to do with material things, like jobs, money, cars, and houses — rather than spiritual concerns like love, faith, and beauty. The word earth is at the root of earthly, and you can think of it as "things that only matter to humans on the Earth." WORD FAMILYearthly: earthlier, earthliest, unearthly+/earth: earthed, earthing, earthlike, earthling, earthly, earths, earthy, unearth/earthling: earthlings/earthy: earthier, earthiest, earthily/unearth: unearthed, unearthing, unearths/unearthly: unearthlily USAGE EXAMPLESBefore Pilate, Jesus exposes the emptiness of earthly authority. The New Yorker(Dec 25, 2016) Did they want me to also renounce all earthly possessions and swaddle myself in rough linens? Salon(Dec 24, 2016) They were more interested in the imminent return of Jesus than in his obscure earthly origins. Wall Street Journal(Dec 23, 2016) adj of or belonging to or characteristic of this earth as distinguished from heaven earthly beings believed that our earthly life is all that matters earthly love our earthly home Syn|Ant earthborn connected with earthly life; of earthly origin earthboundconfined to the earth earthlikeresembling or characteristic of earth mundane, terrenebelonging to this earth or world; not ideal or heavenly sublunar, sublunary, terrestrialof this earth temporalof this earth or world mortalsubject to death profane, secularnot concerned with or devoted to religion secular, temporal, worldlycharacteristic of or devoted to the temporal world as opposed to the spiritual world heavenly of or belonging to heaven or god ambrosial, ambrosianworthy of the gods celestial, ethereal, supernalof heaven or the spirit divine, godlyemanating from God divine, godlikebeing or having the nature of a god paradisaic, paradisaical, paradisal, paradisiac, paradisiacalrelating to or befitting Paradise divine, providentialresulting from divine providence superlunar, superlunary, translunar, translunaryunworldly or ethereal supernalbeing or coming from on high immortalnot subject to death sacredconcerned with religion or religious purposes |
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