正文 第十六章 word list16(3 / 3)

【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