单词 | monkish |
释义 | monk·ish 1. < the monkish church … often included three bays of the nave — E.H.Short > 2. < the poem is thoroughly medieval and monkish in conception — A.E.Bailey > < brooding and moiling in monkish seclusion — A.M.Schlesinger b.1888 > 3. a. < working with much of the patient thoroughness of his monkish predecessors — G.W.Eve > : ascetic < I esteem even more a man who puts poverty and a shelf of books above profiteering and evenings of jazz; I am naturally monkish — H.L.Mencken > b. < a monkish robe > < it is monkish, parsimonious, and timid to despise the lavish and complex beauty of life — D.C.Peattie > 4. < flesh begins to appear on the bones of these monkish annals — B.R.Redman > < monkish Latin > • monk·ish·ly • monk·ish·ness |
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