忽然投入信仰
從「信仰」這個核心延伸到「抓住信仰的那一刻」：不是描述信仰本身，而是描述一個人突然被它攫住、整個人栽進去的轉變。
find religion · noun · B1
In the phrase 'find religion', to suddenly start caring a lot about a belief, in a way that surprises others.
突然信教
核心畫面
You can picture religion as people's bond with a god or gods: the belief that some higher power exists, plus everything that grows out of that belief — how they feel about it, how they worship, the things they hold sacred. From this one root the word fans out into named systems (Islam, Buddhism), into the moment someone suddenly catches that faith, and into anything a person treats with that same wholehearted devotion.
可以想成人和神之間的那條連結：相信有某個更高的力量存在，再加上由這份相信長出來的一切——人怎麼看待它、怎麼敬拜、把什…更多收起
可以想成人和神之間的那條連結：相信有某個更高的力量存在，再加上由這份相信長出來的一切——人怎麼看待它、怎麼敬拜、把什麼奉為神聖。從這一個根，這個詞往外散開：散成一個個有名字的體系（伊斯蘭教、佛教），散成某人忽然抓住信仰的那一刻，也散成一個人用同樣全心投入去對待的任何事。From the picture
如信仰般投入的事
把「信仰」當成一把量投入程度的尺，借過來形容別的事：一件事若被某人看得像信仰那麼重，就用 religion 來打這個比方。核心的虔誠不變，只是對象從神換成了某項活動。
treated like a faith · noun · B1
In the phrase 'something is (like) a religion', used to say that an activity is so important to someone that they treat it the way others treat their beliefs.
像信仰一樣的事
Also in this word
belief in a god · noun · B1
The belief that one or more gods exist, and the way people feel about and worship them.
宗教（信仰）
a specific faith · noun · B1
One particular system of belief in a god or gods, with its own ceremonies, festivals, and rules.
宗教（某一種）
原始詞典資料9 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。
religionnoun/ɹɪˈlɪd͡ʒ.ən/
- 1
Belief in a spiritual or metaphysical reality (often including at least one deity), accompanied by practices or rituals pertaining to the belief.
- Holonyms: cosmology, ontology, epistemology, philosophy
- My brother tends to value religion, but my sister not as much.
- 2
A particular system of such belief, and the rituals and practices proper to it.
- Holonyms: cosmology, ontology, epistemology, philosophy
- Near-synonyms: credo, creed
- 3
The way of life committed to by monks and nuns.
- The monk entered religion when he was 20 years of age.
- 4
informalRituals and actions associated with religious beliefs, but considered apart from them.
- I think some Christians would love Jesus more if they weren't so stuck in religion.
- Jack's spiritual, but he's not really into religion.
- 5
Any practice to which someone or some group is seriously devoted.
- At this point, Star Trek has really become a religion.
- 'Religion can't exist without mystery, especially science, the newest religion.'
- 6
obsoleteFaithfulness to a given principle; conscientiousness.
- Oh with what religion doe I respect and observe the same!
religionverb/ɹɪˈlɪd͡ʒ.ən/
- 1
Engage in religious practice.
- On the scales below, circle the one ( + ) or (-) number which best represents your situation on both the belief and practice dimensions for each of the traditional and nontraditional forms of religioning.
- A similar caution is made by Nye when he calls for a re-evaluation of the category of religion in relationship to theory and method, suggesting that this category: be reconstructed in terms of practice theory as religious practice or religioning.
- 2
Indoctrinate into a specific religion.
- To men whose minds are thus religioned, tied back to gods that never advance, there can never be any such word as progress
- “What do you do, Donnigan? Spend all yer time religioning yer young?”
- 3
To make sacred or symbolic; sanctify.
- The discussion of diet and health raises the question of the importance of discussing vegetarianism in relation to the contemporary religioning of health; as Ross remarks, 'health has replaced sexuality as the new privileged discourse of bodily truth and inner essence'.
- The ideas expressed above challenge us to continuously rupture and interrupt racialized, classed, gendered, religioned and sexualized norms that inhere between and within institutions, understandings of bodies and our Selves.
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。