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A rite is a fixed set of actions people do for a serious or religious reason, usually in the same way every time, as part of a ceremony - a wedding rite, a funeral rite, or a "rite of passage," meaning an event that marks a big change in someone's life, like becoming an adult. It sounds more formal and traditional than the everyday word "custom."
儀式、典禮。
組成From Latin "ritus" (a religious ceremony).
原始詞典資料6 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。
ritenoun詞源 1/ɹaɪt/
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A religious custom.
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A prescribed behavior.
- It was the capable manager's long-established custom to escort Mrs Pridger to a theatre once a week, and Saturday evening had come to be the occasion of this rite.
- But he had to perform the rites of hospitality, had to behave politely to his ally.
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形:
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。