convent是什么意思

双语例句

(1)She was sent to a convent by her parents when she was eighteen, where she spent the rest of her life.

她十八岁时就被父母送进了修道院，在那度过了她的余生。

(2)He studied for three years in a convent.

他在一个修道院管理的学校读了三年书。

(3)The convent built in the last century was blown up during the war.

这所上世纪修建的修道院在战争中被炸毁了。

(4)She attended a convent school and went to Mass each day.

她上了一所女修道院设立的学校，每天都去作弥撒。

(5)The whole convent thought him stupid.

全院的人都以为他是个白痴。

(6)This abbreviation had been adopted in the convent.

这个简称是在那修院里用惯了的。

(7)You stop me and exclaim, "But that is the ideal convent!"

你拖住我，兴奋地说：“这才真是理想的修院呢！”

(8)I was to leave the convent and help the poor while living among them.

我在穷人中生活着，我要走出修道院，去帮助他们。

同义词

n. 女修道院

释义

n.

a Christian community under monastic vows, especially one of nuns

（尤指女子）修道会，隐修会。

(亦作 convent school)a school, especially one for girls, attached to and run by such a community

（尤指女子）修道学校，隐修学校。

the building or buildings occupied by such a community

修道院；修女院，女隐修院。

类似拼写词

convent n. 修道会；隐修会；修道院；修女院；修道学校；隐修学校；女隐修院

content adj. 平静而幸福的；愉快的；满足的；满意的；安于现状的

consent n. 同意；赞成；准许

词源

"Middle English： from Old French, from Latin conventus ‘assembly, company', from the verb convenire （see CONVENE）. The original spelling was covent （surviving in the place name Covent Garden）；the modern form dates from the 16th cent."