shrine
noun /ʃraɪn/
/ʃraɪn/
- a place where people come to worship because it is connected with a holy person or event
圣地；圣祠；神庙；神龛 - to visit the shrine of Mecca
前往圣地麦加朝拜 - shrine to somebody/something a shrine to the Virgin Mary
敬奉圣母马利亚的朝圣地
Topics Religion and festivalsc1, Buildingsc1- The people worshipped at wayside shrines.
人们在路边的圣祠礼拜。 - This shrine is sacred to the Hindu god Vishnu.
这座神殿供奉印度教中的守护神毗湿奴。 - a shrine dedicated to the sea goddess
供奉海洋女神的神庙 - the shrine of St Cuthbert at Durham
达勒姆的圣卡思伯特圣坛
Collocations Dictionaryadjective- hallowed
- holy
- religious
- …
- build
- create
- erect
- …
- city
- room
- at a/the shrine
- shrine of
- shrine to
- …
- to visit the shrine of Mecca
- a place that people visit because it is connected with somebody/something that is important to them
具有重要意义的地方 - The singer’s grave in Paris has become a shrine.
这位歌手在巴黎的坟墓已经成为一个圣地。 - shrine for somebody Wimbledon is a shrine for all lovers of tennis.
温布尔登是所有网球爱好者的圣地。 - shrine to somebody/something They have turned the room into a shrine to their dead son.
他们把这个房间变成了他们死去儿子的圣地。
Collocations Dictionaryadjective- hallowed
- holy
- religious
- …
- build
- create
- erect
- …
- city
- room
- at a/the shrine
- shrine of
- shrine to
- …
- The singer’s grave in Paris has become a shrine.
词源Old English scrīn ‘cabinet, chest, reliquary’, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch schrijn and German Schrein, from Latin scrinium ‘chest for books’.