對神聖之物的不敬
這是架子最原始的那一種:架子屬於宗教,上面放的是廟、經書、供品。
noun · C1
Treating something holy — a temple, a church, a holy book or a holy object — in a way that shows no respect for it.
褻瀆
Imagine a shelf where a group of people keep the things nobody is allowed to touch. Sacrilege is reaching up, taking one down, and using it as if it were any ordinary object. What decides the weight of the act is not the object itself but how high the shelf stands for the people who put it there.
Wiktionary dates it to around 1300 with the original sense of stealing something sacred, from Latin sacrilegium, from sacrilegus; the profanation sense appears in the late 14th century.
來源資料說它大約在 1300 年進入英文,最早就是「偷走聖物」,來自拉丁文 sacrilegium(sacrilegus),十四世紀後期才出現「褻瀆」的意思。可以想成:一開始真的是把東西從架子上拿走,後來變成把它的神聖拿走。
Wiktionary entry for sacrilege, etymology_text in this packet: circa 1300, original sense stealing something sacred, from Latin sacrilegium, from sacrilegus; sense of profanation from late 14th century.
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對神聖之物的不敬
這是架子最原始的那一種:架子屬於宗教,上面放的是廟、經書、供品。
noun · C1
Treating something holy — a temple, a church, a holy book or a holy object — in a way that shows no respect for it.
褻瀆
借用到世俗珍視之物
同一個架子,換成別人的老戲院、家傳菜、心愛的專輯。因為是把宗教的重字借過來,語氣自然會誇張一點。
noun · C1
Treating something that another person values very highly without the care or respect they think it deserves. The thing does not have to be holy: it can be a building, a recipe, a book or a song.
糟蹋、大不敬