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    An incarnation is a particular form or period in which something exists — 'this restaurant is just the latest incarnation of a shop that's changed hands many times.' In religion, especially Christianity, 'the Incarnation' refers to the belief that God became human in the form of Jesus.

    化身、(同一事物的)某個階段或形式;(基督教)道成肉身

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組成Made of 'in-' (into) plus a Latin root meaning 'flesh,' plus '-ation' — literally 'the act of taking on flesh/a body.'

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  • carnivoreshares the same Latin root, 'caro/carnis,' meaning flesh

原始詞典資料10 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。

Incarnationname

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    ChristianityThe doctrine that the second person of the Trinity assumed human form in the person of Jesus Christ and is fully divine and fully human.

incarnationnoun/ˌɪŋ.kɑːˈneɪ.ʃən/

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    An incarnate being or form.

    • She is a new incarnation of some of the illustrious dead.
    • She had cast off the terror of the leaping flame, the cold power of judgment that was even now being done, and the wise sadness of the tombs - cast them off and put them behind her, like the white shroud she wore, and now stood out the incarnation of lovely tempting womanhood, made more perfect - and in a way more spiritual - than ever woman was before.
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    A version or iteration (of something).

    • It seems that they existed in some sort of previous incarnation of our universe, and use abstract terms to describe their existence, such as "feeding on concepts". They prepared for some sort of ascension, but then the Pattern came, which they describe at first as an all-consuming emptiness, elaborating by saying that anything that passed into it was torn asunder, subjected to a set of principles and order that grinds things down to nothing, in a process of which entropy is just one part.
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    A living being embodying a deity or spirit.

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    An assumption of human form or nature.

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    A person or thing regarded as embodying or exhibiting some quality, idea, or the like.

    • The leading dancer is the incarnation of grace.
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    The act of incarnating.

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    The state of being incarnated.

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    obsoleteA rosy or red colour; flesh (the colour); carnation.

另外 1 個記錄的用法
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    obsoletemedicinesciencesThe process of healing wounds and filling the part with new flesh; granulation.

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