secular是什么意思

短语搭配

(1)secular humanism现世人文主义

(2)secular arm俗权

(3)secular variation长期变化；长期变化趋势

双语例句

(1)The secular stagnation of the economy has caused panic in society.

经济的长期停滞给社会带来了恐慌。

(2)We invited a secular to host our wedding.

我们邀请了一位在俗牧师来主持我们的婚礼。

(3)Harvard University is a secular university now.

哈佛大学现在是个非宗教大学。

(4)Ours is a secular society.

我们的社会是个世俗社会。

(5)Cardinal Daly has said that churches should not be used for profane or secular purposes.

戴利主教说过，教堂不应该用于非宗教或世俗的目的。

(6)The Chief Rabbi warned that secular Europe is at risk, however, because its moral relativism can easily be defeated by fundamentalists.

这位首席拉比警告道，但是欧洲世俗世界正处于危险之中，因为其道德相对主义会被原教旨主义者轻易击败。

(7)He spoke about preserving the country as a secular state.

他谈到保持该国的非宗教国性质。

(8)Mexico is a secular state and does not have diplomatic relations with the Vatican.

墨西哥是个非宗教国家，和梵蒂冈没有外交关系。

同义词

adj. 世俗的；长期的；现世的；不朽的

n. 牧师

反义词

同根词

词根 secular

(1)secularism n. 世俗主义；现世主义；宗教与教育分离论

(2)secularization n. 世俗化；还俗；把教育与宗教分离

(3)secularist n. 世俗论者；宗教宗教与教育分离论者

(4)secularize vt. 使还俗；改作俗用

释义

adj.

denoting attitudes, activities, or other things that have no religious or spiritual basis

尘世的，世俗的

secular buildings

世俗建筑

secular attitudes to death.

对死亡的世俗态度。与SACRED相对。

Christian Church (of clergy) not subject to or bound by religious rule; not belonging to or living in a monastic or other order

【基督教】 （神职人员）不受教规约束的；在俗的。与REGULAR 相对。

Astronomy of or denoting slow changes in the motion of the sun or planets

【天文】 缓慢的；长期的。

Economics (of a fluctuation or trend) occurring or persisting over an indefinitely long period

【经济】 （波动，趋势）长期性的

there is evidence that the slump is not cyclical but secular.

有证据表示衰退不是周期性的而是长期性的。

occurring once every century or similarly long period (used especially in reference to celebratory games in ancient Rome)

（尤指古罗马的庆祝活动）每世纪一次的；约百年一次的。

n.

a secular priest

在俗牧师。

词源

"Middle English： senses 1 and 2 from Old French seculer, from Latin saecularis, from saeculum ‘generation, age', used in Christian Latin to mean ‘the world' （as opposed to the Church）; senses 3, 4, and 5 （early 19th cent.） from Latin saecularis ‘relating to an age or period’."

考纲分布

近9年出现0次

重要程度: 2星

0%; adj 现世的

0%; adj 世俗的

0%; adj 非宗教的

考纲释义

( 1)adj. 现世的

( 2)adj. 世俗的

( 3)adj. 非宗教的