| 单词 | shrine |
| 释义 | shrine (once / 415 pages) nv Set up some candles and a photograph of someone important in your life in the corner of a room where you spend time reflecting silently, and you've created a shrine. Shrine comes from the Latin scrinium meaning "case or box for keeping papers." Think of a shrine as a niche or case in which the spirit of someone special is kept. It could be a statue or some other form of commemoration to either a person or a relic. A shrine can be as small as a tiny mantel in your house or it can be as massive as a building commemorating, or shrining, a sacred person. WORD FAMILYshrine: enshrine, shrined, shrines, shrining+/enshrine: enshrined, enshrines, enshrining USAGE EXAMPLESWeaver’s funeral will be Thursday at the Jaffa Shrine Center. Seattle Times(Jan 02, 2017) Temple bells echoed at midnight as families gather around noodles and revelers flock to shrines for the biggest holiday in Japan. Time(Jan 01, 2017) To be a Ranger is to sense the sacred trust of upholding all that such a name means in this shrine of football. The Guardian(Jan 01, 2017) 1n a place of worship hallowed by association with some sacred thing or person Exp|Hypo|Hyper Caaba (Islam) a black stone building in Mecca that is shaped like a cube and that is the most sacred Muslim pilgrim shrine; believed to have been given by Gabriel to Abraham; Muslims turn in its direction when praying Oracle of Apollo(Greek mythology) the oracle at Delphi where a priestess supposedly delivered messages from Apollo to those who sought advice; the messages were usually obscure or ambiguous oracle a shrine where an oracular god is consulted stupa, topea dome-shaped shrine erected by Buddhists house of God, house of prayer, house of worship, place of worship any building where congregations gather for prayer 2v enclose in a shrine Syn|Hyper enshrine close in, enclose, inclose, shut in surround completely |
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