convent
英 [ˈkɒnvənt]
美 [ˈkɑːnvent]
n. 女隐修院; 女修道院; 女修会开办的学校
Collins.1 / BNC.8106 / COCA.11258
同义词辨析
monasteryabbeyconventnunnery【导航词义：修道院，寺院】
monasteryn. 修道院，寺院
〔辨析〕
指修道士、僧侣居住、修道之处。
〔例证〕
There are three hundred monks living in the monastery.
这个修道院里住着300个修道士。
这个修道院里住着300个修道士。
abbeyn. 大修道院，大寺院
〔辨析〕
指带建筑群的大教堂，通常供修道士或修女居住、修道等。
〔例证〕
Have you ever been to Westminster Abbey?
你去过威斯敏斯特教堂吗？
你去过威斯敏斯特教堂吗？
conventn. 女修道院
〔辨析〕
供修女居住、修道等的建筑或建筑群。
〔例证〕
There is a convent nearby.
附近有一所女修道院。
附近有一所女修道院。
nunneryn. 〈旧〉女修道院，尼姑庵
〔辨析〕
词义同 convent，但现已少用。
〔例证〕
A nunnery is a place where nuns live together.
女修道院是修女们一起居住的地方。
Jane lives in a nunnery.
简住在一座修道院里。
女修道院是修女们一起居住的地方。
Jane lives in a nunnery.
简住在一座修道院里。
牛津词典
noun
- 女隐修院；女修道院
a building in which nuns (= members of a female religious community) live together - 女修会开办的学校
a school run by nuns
柯林斯词典
- 女修道院
Aconventis a building in which a community of nuns live. - 同 convent school
Aconventis the same as aconvent school.
英英释义
noun
- a religious residence especially for nuns
- a community of people in a religious order (especially nuns) living together
双语例句
- This abbreviation had been adopted in the convent.
这个简称是在那修院里用惯了的。 - I initially got interested in Mary the Queen Convent because my aunt is a Catholic nun and I wanted to pursue a project that focused on the intersection of religion and death.
我当初对这个修道院产生兴趣是因为我的姨妈是一名天主教修女。我想继续做一个项目，关注宗教和死亡的交集。 - I must leave the convent to help the poor by living among them.
我必须离开修道院去和穷人们住在一起去帮助他们。 - I'm from the convent. I'm the new governess, Captain.
我从修道院来，是新来的家庭教师，上校。 - She had been to a convent school, had an IQ of 167, and spoke five languages.
她童年就读的是修女学校，智商高达167，会说五种语言。 - She entered a convent.
她成为了一名修女。 - She came to the convent with a degree in civil engineering.
她来到修道院的时候已经获得了土木工程学位。 - It is in consequence of this decay that the convent gave up the education of girls.
正是由于那种萧条，修院才放弃了对小姑娘们的教养。 - The living in the convent narrowed her views.
修道院的生活使她的视野变窄了。 - Fortunately, he was saved from his burning plane by a group of nuns from a neayby convent.
幸运的是，附近修道院里的一群修女把他从燃烧的飞机里救了出来。