reverence

/'revәrәns/ uk　 词频 #10327

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reverence 是什么意思

中文释义

n. 尊敬, 敬重, 敬礼, 尊严, 威望

vt. 崇敬, 敬畏, 尊敬

英文释义

n. a reverent mental attitude

n. an act showing respect (especially a bow or curtsy)

v. regard with feelings of respect and reverence; consider hallowed or exalted or be in awe of

reverence 的真实例句

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Names like Beckett, Eliot, Joyce and Woolf are spoken, now, with the same reverence as Shakespeare, Marlowe and Spenser.

—— In Pursuit of Genius In Troubling Times: On Philip Owens’s Picture of Nobody

Gwennan Harries taught Jones at Ysgol Gyfun Gymraeg Glantaf, the school she attended in north west Cardiff, and remembers the reverence her rugby skills were held in.

—— Welsh fire, England captain - how Meg Jones became a dual-nation icon

Niemann had, in recent years, cultivated the persona of a professional-wrestling villain: a brash, trash-talking teen with wild Einstein hair and no reverence for the game’s best players.

—— Tantrums, tears, and meltdowns. The history of chess grandmasters is replete with tragic stories of lives undone by delusion and paranoia

The standard answer to this is that exorbitant funeral spending is “part of the local culture,” and particularly reflective of a “reverence toward elders.” And indeed that is true.

—— What causes X? For lazy social scientists, everything can be attributed to “culture,” a point so vague that it effectively argues nothing at all

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