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Rebirth means being born again, but almost always in a figurative, not literal, way — a fresh start, a new beginning after something ended or nearly died out. You'll hear it about a person's life changing direction ('after the accident, it felt like a rebirth'), about old traditions or art styles coming back into fashion ('a rebirth of interest in vinyl records'), or about a city or industry recovering after hard times ('the rebirth of the neighborhood'). Some religions also use 'rebirth' for a literal belief about souls being born into a new life after death, so context really matters here.
重生、復興(多為比喻用法,也可指宗教信仰中靈魂的轉世投胎)
組成re- (again) + birth.
原始詞典資料5 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。
rebirthnoun/ɹiːˈbɜːθ/
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Reincarnation; new birth subsequent to one's first.
- A theistic version of the above doctrine of transmigratory existence is presented best in the Bhagavadgitā which compares the rebirth of the soul in another body to changing of clothes, […]
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Revival, reinvigoration.
- And it was the spread of modern nationalism in the aftermath of Napoleon's defeat that mainly accounted for the nineteenth-century rebirth of the “Handelian” oratorio in Germany, where it had never thrived before, […]
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Spiritual renewal.
- The rebirth of Baptism affirms that Christ the healer shares our life.
- Rather, in 1 Pet 3:21, those who have experienced rebirth in Christ, presumably through baptism, are promised an eschatological reward.
rebirthverb/ɹiːˈbɜːθ/
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To cause to be born again, spiritually renewed, or revived.
- D’Alessandro fashioned it upon a book he wrote, the lost stories he rebirthed and cherished.
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To be born again, spiritually renewed, or revived.
- As I rebirthed and did the LRT, I began to love and accept myself as a woman.
- “And how ’bout me?” / “Two life sentences, probably.” / “The one life,” says Johnny, laughing, “isn’t enough? They don’t satisfy one, they want two? Maybe when I rebirth again, I owe them another next life.”
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。