monastery

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mon·as·tery /ˈmɒnəstri $ ˈmɑːnəsteri/ noun (plural monasteries) [countableC]

RRa place where monks live 寺院，修道院 → convent, nunnery

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monastery• To protect themselves they also determined to withdraw to a monastery.• They perceived that the acquisition of wealth and privilege exposed churches and monasteries to new dangers.• The church itself became a two-class system: the ascetic monasteries versus the more worldly regular clergy.• Fifteen miles away is Forde Abbey, a 900-year old Cistercian monastery with gardens.• Leaving his monastery in the countryside, Bishop Martin took his place at the see wearing his animal skins.• In the end, they met among the monastery buildings at Melrose, on its river-girt promontory thirty miles inland from Berwick.

Origin monastery

(1300-1400) Late Latin monasterium, from Greek, from monazein “to live alone”, from monos; → MONO-

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BNC: 6031 COCA: 8072

monastery

noun

ADJECTIVE | VERB + MONASTERY | PREPOSITION

ADJECTIVE

➤great大修道院

◇the great monastery of St-Quentin聖康坦大修道院

➤ancient, medieval, old古修道院；中世紀的修道院

▸➤ruined破敗的修道院

▸➤Benedictine, Dominican, etc.本篤會、多明我會等修道院

▸➤Buddhist, Tibetan, Zen佛寺；西藏藏傳佛教寺院；禪院

VERB + MONASTERY

➤enter, go into, join進修道院

◇He entered a monastery as a young man.他年輕的時候就進了修道院。

➤leave離開修道院

▸➤found建修道院

◇The monastery was founded in 1665.該隱修院建於 1665 年。

PREPOSITION

➤at a/the monastery在修道院

◇You can stay at the monastery.你可以待在修道院。

➤in a/the monastery在修道院裏

◇He lived in a monastery for most of his life.他一生大部份時間都住在隱修院裏。

BNC: 6031 COCA: 8072

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