喜樂美語
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    A raised table or platform used in religious ceremonies. In a church, it's where the priest performs communion. In ancient religions, it was often a stone table where people left gifts or offerings for a god. You'll also see it in the expression 'left at the altar' — meaning someone was abandoned by their partner right before or during the wedding.

    祭壇（古代獻祭用）、聖壇（教堂內舉行儀式的桌台）

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組成from an old word meaning 'high' — an altar was originally just a raised, high platform

同家族的字

  • altitudeshares the same old root meaning 'high'
  • exaltshares the same root meaning 'high' — to exalt someone is to lift them up in praise

原始詞典資料3 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

altarnoun/ˈɒl.tə/

  • 1

    A table or similar flat-topped structure used for religious rites.

    • To hawke, or els to hunt From the auter to the funt, Wyth cry unreverent, Before the sacrament, Wythin the holy church bowndis, That of our fayth the grownd is.
    • Wax models of the pudenda of both sexes were regularly placed before the altar.
  • 2

    informalA raised area around an altar in a church; the sanctuary.

  • 3

    Any (real or notional) place where something is worshipped or sacrificed to.

    • […]now marking the end of ascetic rationalism, the monadology no longer implied a sacrifice of individuality on the altar of rationality.

資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。