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词汇 unhallowed
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Definition of unhallowed in English:

unhallowed

adjectiveʌnˈhaləʊdˌənˈhæloʊd
  • 1Not formally consecrated.

    不奉为神圣的;非神圣的

    unhallowed ground

    非神圣之地。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • The book says much of the author, it reads: ‘To the Irish men and women and children who lie in unhallowed grounds in the sugar cane fields of Barbados’.
    • There are added felicities: traditionally, suicides were buried in unhallowed ground at crossroads, and what more impressive crossroads has the world ever seen than this?
    • The spirit of Jesus [challenged] class distinctions between the righteous few and the unhallowed many.
    • They'll bury the ashes in unmarked graves in unhallowed ground.
    Synonyms
    non-religious, lay, non-church, temporal, worldly, earthly, profane
    1. 1.1 Unholy; wicked.
      不道德的;邪恶的
      unhallowed retribution

      不道德的惩罚。

      Example sentencesExamples
      • Victor knows that all of them would condemn his unhallowed endeavor to reanimate dead human tissue, so he sutures in the shadows, keeping his horrible handiwork a dark, Byronic secret.
      • In that unhallowed place centuries before, show trials were held, unjust and corrupt, and many innocents were sentenced to slow, twitching deaths on the gibbet.
      • Instead, her imagination led her to see - ‘with shut eyes, but acute mental vision ‘- ‘the pale student of unhallowed arts kneeling beside the thing he had put together.’
      • Alas, Busteed failed to persuade the jury that his client's story was quite as true as it was interesting, and the fame of The Pickwick Papers has in fact outlived that of the roving and unhallowed lust of Mrs. Beardsley.
      • Evidently there is quite a treasure chamber somewhere in the depths of this unhallowed place.

Definition of unhallowed in US English:

unhallowed

adjectiveˌənˈhalōdˌənˈhæloʊd
  • 1Not formally consecrated.

    不奉为神圣的;非神圣的

    unhallowed ground

    非神圣之地。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • They'll bury the ashes in unmarked graves in unhallowed ground.
    • There are added felicities: traditionally, suicides were buried in unhallowed ground at crossroads, and what more impressive crossroads has the world ever seen than this?
    • The spirit of Jesus [challenged] class distinctions between the righteous few and the unhallowed many.
    • The book says much of the author, it reads: ‘To the Irish men and women and children who lie in unhallowed grounds in the sugar cane fields of Barbados’.
    Synonyms
    non-religious, lay, non-church, temporal, worldly, earthly, profane
    1. 1.1 Unholy; wicked.
      不道德的;邪恶的
      unhallowed retribution

      不道德的惩罚。

      Example sentencesExamples
      • Alas, Busteed failed to persuade the jury that his client's story was quite as true as it was interesting, and the fame of The Pickwick Papers has in fact outlived that of the roving and unhallowed lust of Mrs. Beardsley.
      • Instead, her imagination led her to see - ‘with shut eyes, but acute mental vision ‘- ‘the pale student of unhallowed arts kneeling beside the thing he had put together.’
      • Victor knows that all of them would condemn his unhallowed endeavor to reanimate dead human tissue, so he sutures in the shadows, keeping his horrible handiwork a dark, Byronic secret.
      • Evidently there is quite a treasure chamber somewhere in the depths of this unhallowed place.
      • In that unhallowed place centuries before, show trials were held, unjust and corrupt, and many innocents were sentenced to slow, twitching deaths on the gibbet.
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