| 单词 | profane |
| 释义 | pro·fane I. transitive verb 1. < the priests in the temple profane the sabbath — Mt 12:5 (Revised Standard Version) > 2. < its borders have not been profaned by the clutter of outdoor advertising signs — Malcolm Bauer > intransitive verb < we heard a yell and then a loud profaning > II. 1. < Jeremiah has been likened to several characters in profane history — A.W.Streane > < the profane world of spectators — James Joyce > 2. < profane rites > 3. a. b. (1) (2) < the profane old rascal — Herman Melville > 4. a. b. < if a picture … had been injured by cleaning, or retouched by some profane hand — Nathaniel Hawthorne > Synonyms: < the profane poet is by instinct a naturalist. He loves landscape, he loves love, he loves the humor and pathos of earthly existence. But the religious prophet loves none of these things — George Santayana > < profane men living in ships, like the holy men gathered together in monasteries, develop traits of profound resemblance — Joseph Conrad > < that little allegory of sacred and profane love — John Galsworthy > secular implies a relation to the world as distinguished from the church, religion, or the religious life < believing that no creed, religious or secular, can be justified except on the basis of reason and evidence — Times Literary Supplement > < the secular critics of religion — Reinhold Niebuhr > < anarchy in the religious society is as undesirable as it is in the secular world — Leo Pfeffer > and is close to profane < secular and religious music > but sometimes it opposes regular in the sense of governed by monastic rule < a secular priest does not belong to a religious order > and usually it opposes religious in the sense of belonging to or serving the ends of religion or a church < the parochial and secular schools > lay commonly applies to a person who does not belong to the clergy or sometimes to such a person's activities, interests, or duties, usually opposing clerical or ecclesiastic < the priests met with lay members of the parish > Often the term extends to signify nonprofessional < a lay opinion on a medical question > or is often close to average, mundane, sometimes untrained < facts in a war which either are based on military information or which cannot be explained to the lay mind — F.D.Roosevelt > temporal, opposing spiritual in designating what belongs to material or worldly concerns, applies chiefly to sovereigns, rulers, or dignitaries having political authority or civil power < to be ruled in temporal things by clerical authority — Agnes Repplier > < the superiority of the spiritual and eternal over the carnal and temporal — H.O.Taylor > < our temporal and ecclesiastical overlords > Synonym: see in addition impious. III. < appear … ridiculous to the profane — Ramon Guthrie > |
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