【記】詞根記憶:re(重新)+ incarnate(化身)→ 精神重新進入肉體 → 轉生
impiety
We must regard your blasphemy as an act of impiety.
【譯】我們必須把你的褻瀆行為視作不虔誠。
【釋】n.無信仰,不虔誠(the quality or state of being impious)
【反】devoutness(n.朝拜)
orthodoxy
【釋】n.信仰正統,正教(quality of being conforming to established doctrine)
seraph
【釋】n.六翼天使(one of the 6-winged angels standing in the presence of God)
【反】diabolicalness(n.惡魔)
sacrosanct
【釋】a.極神聖的(most sacred;inviolable)
chaplain
【釋】n.(私人、社團、醫院、監獄、貴族、私人教堂、軍中等的)牧師(clergyman attached to a chapel)
ecclesiastic
【釋】n.神職者,牧師;教會 a.神職者的,牧師的;教會的(ecclesiastical;pertaining to the church)
Better to light one candle than to curse the darkness.
—Strong
與其詛咒黑暗,不如燃起蠟燭。
——斯特朗
練 習 題
反義詞連線題
1.civility appropriate
2.decorum chicanery
3.rite devoutness
4.paragon diabolicalness
5.asset effrontery
6.honest experience fraught with tension
7.default fulfill an obligation
8.discount heterodox
9.remunerative improvised act
10.expend infrequently visited place
11.surrender insularity
12.bucolic liability
13.idyll meant to obstruct
14.purlieu polished
15.rustic rudeness
16.concerted store up
17.cosmopolitanism surcharge
18.canonical travesty
19.impiety unrequited
20.seraph urban
連線題答案
1.civility rudeness
2.decorum effrontery
3.rite improvised act
4.paragontravesty
5.assetliability
6.honest chicanery
7.default fulfill an obligation
8.discount surcharge
9.remunerative unrequited
10.expend store up
11.surrender appropriate
12.bucolic urban
13.idyll experience fraught with tension
14.purlieu infrequently visited place
15.rustic polished
16.concerted meant to obstruct
17.cosmopolitanism insularity
18.canonicalheterodox
19.impiety devoutness
20.seraph diabolicalness