喜樂美語

You can picture sainted as a small halo that gets attached to a name. The church puts it there first: after someone has died, a decision is made, and from then on the name is never said again. Once you can see that halo, you can see people lending it out. They lend it to a grandmother whose goodness cost her something, to a dead parent they still speak of with love, to a founder nobody is allowed to argue with — and, in one old expression, they shout a holy name simply because they have had a shock.

可以想成有一個小光環，被別上一個名字。最早是教會別上去的：人過世以後，教會做了決定，從那之後這個名字就不再被平平地講出來。看得見這個光環，就看得見大家怎麼把它借來用。借給心腸好到讓自己吃虧的奶奶；借給提起來仍然帶著敬愛的亡故父母；借給一位沒人敢質疑的創辦人。還有一句老話，是受到驚嚇時直接喊出一個帶光環的名字。

登入就可以看每一支怎麼連回核心畫面。

容易混在一起的字在訂閱裡。容易混在一起的字需要訂閱帳號。

同家族的字

more sainted most sainted

意思相近

canonizedsaintlylategood heavens!holyvirtuousdepartedmy goodness!blessedpiousdearly departedgood grief!+8

意思相反

selfishlivingimpatientwickeddespiseddiscreditedordinary

原始詞典資料5 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，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。

saintedadj

  • 1

    Made a saint; saint-like, reverenced.

    • Pope John Paul II, of sainted memory, is a candidate for beatification.
  • 2

    Used to mark a beloved person mentioned in conversation as being deceased.

    • My sainted mother never had an evening dress.
  • 3

    Pious, saintly.

  • 4

    Much admired.

這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：

摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。