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If someone reincarnates, they die and are then born again in another body. This is a teaching in , Buddhism, and some other beliefs: a person, or sometimes an animal, comes back to live a new life. English uses the word for that idea. You will often hear the passive: she was reincarnated as a bird. People also stretch it in jokes — “you must have been a cat in another life” — though actually careful speakers keep reincarnate for the spiritual idea, not for starting a job again or “getting a second chance.” The related noun is reincarnation (the idea or the new life). Reborn can sound Christian or poetic; reincarnate is the body-after-body word.
轉世、投胎(宗教或民間說法裡,死後換一個身體再出生;投胎較口語)
組成re- (again) + incarnate (in flesh). Incarnate is in- plus a Latin piece about flesh. So: to be put into flesh again.
同家族的字
- incarnatethe same flesh-word without re- — to put into a body
- incarnationthe noun: being in a body; a particular life
- reincarnationthe noun for being born again in a new body
原始詞典資料1 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。
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To be, or cause to be, reborn, especially in a different body or as a different species.
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。