convent

英 ['kɒnvənt] 美 ['kɑːnvent]

• n. 女修道院；女修院开办的学校

双解释义

n. (名词)

1. [C]修女

   a group of unmarried religious women who live and often work together

2. [C]女修道院

   the building where nuns live and often work

英英释义

Noun:

1. a religious residence especially for nuns

2. a community of people in a religious order (especially nuns) living together

例句

用作名词 (n.)

1. The nuns live in the convent.
   修女们住在修道院。
2. She bunked from the convent last term.
   她上学期从女修道院逃跑了。
3. Living in the convent narrowed her views.
   修道院生活使她的视野变窄。
4. As a young woman she joined a convent of nuns.
   她在年轻的时候加入了女修道会。

常见句型

用作名词 (n.)

1. The convent wears her own special habit.
   那修女穿着自己独特的服装。
2. The living in the convent narrowed her views.
   修道院的生活使她的视野变窄了。

词汇搭配

• convent school 教会学校

近反义词

【近义词】

• nunnery 女修道院
• abbey 修道院
• cloister 修道院
• monastery 修道院
• religious community 宗教团体
• priory 小修道院
• sisterhood 姊妹关系
• life 一生
• religious 宗教的