litany

英 ['lɪtəni] 美 ['lɪtəni]

• n. 连祷；冗长的陈述；连续

英英释义

Noun:

1. any long and tedious address or recital;

   "the patient recited a litany of complaints"
   "a litany of failures"
   

2. a prayer consisting of a series of invocations by the priest with responses from the congregation

例句

用作名词 (n.)

1. Dr. Middleton bowed to the litany.
   弥得尔顿博士对这种连祷俯首贴耳。
2. He tried to offer an explanation,but I just started in on a litany of nasty barbs.
   他想解释，可我又说了一连串难听的话刺他。
3. There is a litany of unanswered questions surrounding the incident.
   有许多对这个事件未予答覆的疑问。
4. The television news was a daily litany of bombings and killings.
   电视新闻每天连续不断地报道爆炸和杀戮事件。

经典引文

• Our crew..invoked Allah and a whole litany of what I supposed were saints.

  出自： W. Golding

• 'A generation gone,' went the litany of the time.

  出自： H. Bailey

• The reform of any socialist system is likely to involve a litany of words and phrases such as skills, market economy, mobility of labour.

  出自：Sunday Times

近反义词

【近义词】

• prayer 祈祷
• prayers 祈祷
• list 目录
• listing 名单
• catalog 目录
• catalogue 目录
• inventory 详细目录
• series （单复同）系列...
• recital 背诵
• recitation 背诵
• enumeration 计算