secular
英 ['sekjʊlə]
美 ['sɛkjəlɚ]
- adj. 世俗的；長期的；現世的；不朽的
- n. 修道院外的教士，(對宗教家而言的) 俗人
助記提示
1. 諧音“世苦啦(了)”-----世俗的苦難、苦痛------隻有世俗的人才會經曆悲歡離合、生老病死的苦痛與苦難。
2. 諧音“訴苦啦(了)”-----隻有俗人才到處訴苦。
3. 諧音“俗客有啦(了)”-------俗客到處都有啦。
4. se色，cular哭了：見到美色就哭－世俗的------俗人啊見到美色就激動得哭了。
5. sec=soc——social-社會的 => 世俗的小社會。
中文詞源
secular 現世的，世俗的，非宗教的來自拉丁語 saecularis,現時的，現世的，來自 saeculum,現時，現世，可能來自 PIE*se,播種， 耕種，詞源同 seed,semen.-cul,-culum,工具格後綴，詞源同 oracle,hibernacle.比喻用法，即相 比於神和宗教的永恒，種子隻有一次生命過程，引申詞義世俗的，非宗教的。
英文詞源
- secular
- secular: [13] Latin saeculum, a word of uncertain origin, meant ‘generation, age’. It was used in early Christian texts for the ‘temporal world’ (as opposed to the ‘spiritual world’), and that was the sense in which its derived adjective saeculāris passed via Old French seculer into English. The more familiar modern English meaning ‘non-religious’ emerged in the 16th century.
- secular (adj.)
- c. 1300, "living in the world, not belonging to a religious order," also "belonging to the state," from Old French seculer (Modern French séculier), from Late Latin saecularis "worldly, secular, pertaining to a generation or age," from Latin saecularis "of an age, occurring once in an age," from saeculum "age, span of time, generation."
According to Watkins, this is probably from PIE *sai-tlo-, with instrumental element *-tlo- + *sai- "to bind, tie" (see sinew), extended metaphorically to successive human generations as links in the chain of life. Another theory connects it with words for "seed," from PIE root *se- "to sow" (see sow (v.), and compare Gothic mana-seþs "mankind, world," literally "seed of men").
Used in ecclesiastical writing like Greek aion "of this world" (see cosmos). It is source of French siècle. Ancient Roman ludi saeculares was a three-day, day-and-night celebration coming once in an "age" (120 years). In English, in reference to humanism and the exclusion of belief in God from matters of ethics and morality, from 1850s.
雙語例句
- 1. The church can only go so far in secular matters.
- 教會在世俗事務上隻能做這麽多。
來自柯林斯例句
- 2. Ours is a secular society.
- 我們的社會是個世俗社會。
來自《權威詞典》
- 3. We live in an increasingly secular society.
- 我們生活在一個日益非宗教的社會.
來自《簡明英漢詞典》
- 4. Mexico is a secular state and does not have diplomatic relations with the Vatican.
- 墨西哥是個世俗國家，和梵蒂岡沒有外交關係。
來自柯林斯例句
- 5. Cardinal Daly has said that churches should not be used for profane or secular purposes.
- 戴利主教已經說過，教堂不應該用於非宗教或世俗的目的。
來自柯林斯例句