rosary: [14] Rosary comes from Latin rosārium ‘rose garden’, a derivative of rosa ‘rose’. It was a common conceit in the Middle Ages to name collections of verse or similar short pieces after bunches of flowers (anthology comes from the Greek word for ‘flower’, and a similar inspiration underlies florilegium, while a 13thcentury volume of the collected works of the Persian poet Sa’di was called the Rose garden).
That was the background against which a collection of Roman Catholic prayers, consisting of Aves, Paternosters, and Glorias, came to be known as a rosary. A string of beads of varying sizes came to be used for counting off how far one has got in saying these prayers (English bead itself comes from a word meaning ‘prayer’), and this too was termed rosary. => rose
rosary (n.)
"rose garden," mid-15c., from Latin rosarium "rose garden," in Medieval Latin also "garland; string of beads; series of prayers," from noun use of neuter of rosarius "of roses," from rosa "rose" (see rose (n.1)).
The sense of "series of prayers" is 1540s, from Middle French rosaire, a figurative use of the word meaning "rose garden," on the notion of a "garden" of prayers. This probably embodies the medieval conceit of comparing collections to bouquets (compare anthology and Medieval Latin hortulus animae "prayerbook," literally "little garden of the soul"). Sense transferred 1590s to the strings of beads used as a memory aid in reciting the rosary.
rosary 英文释义
1. beads used in counting prayers (especially Catholic rosary)
rosary 双语例句
1. Estrada took a rosary from his tunic and ran the beads through the fingers of one hand.
埃斯特拉达从法衣里取出一串念珠，用一只手捻动起来。
来自柯林斯例句
2. The priest fidgeted nervously with his black rosary beads.
牧师紧张地拨弄着他的黑色念珠。
来自辞典例句
3. Someone had began to whistle the Rosary, tunelessly inside.
里面有人已经开始不成腔地用口哨吹奏《玫瑰经》.
来自辞典例句
4. He took rosary beads from his pocket and began to pray silently.
他从口袋中取出念珠,开始默默祈祷.
来自辞典例句
5. Her hands lay open in her lap and, loosely between them, a rosary.
她的双手摊开放在膝上, 一串念珠松松地拿在手间.
来自辞典例句
rosary 实用场景例句
Estrada took a rosary from his tunic and ran the beads through the fingers of one hand...
埃斯特拉达从法衣里取出一串念珠，用一只手捻动起来。
柯林斯高阶英语词典
He's saying three rosaries a day.
他现在每天念3次玫瑰经。
柯林斯高阶英语词典
The priest's two male parrots are holding rosary beads and praying in their cage.
牧师的两只公鹦鹉正夹着念珠在笼子里作玫瑰经祷告.
期刊摘选
Her hands lay open in her lap and, loosely between them, a rosary.
她的双手摊开放在膝上, 一串念珠松松地拿在手间.
辞典例句
If I ask for your rosary, you'd never give it to me, right ?
如果我要你的念珠, 你不会给我, 是 吗 ?
电影对白
Onyx, believed to inspire deep thoughts, is usually used for rosary beads in the Catholic church.
缟玛瑙据说能启发人沉思冥想, 天主教会常用作念珠.
期刊摘选
The Catholic dedicated May and October as months of the Rosary.
天主教会把五月及十月称为玫瑰月.
期刊摘选
Meet one Sunday after the rosary.
随便哪个星期天诵完玫瑰经之后,都不妨去见见.
期刊摘选
Someone had began to whistle the Rosary, tunelessly inside.
里面有人已经开始不成腔地用口哨吹奏《玫瑰经》.
辞典例句
A rosary having beads for five decades of Hail Marys.
串珠项链代表万福玛丽亚五十年珠子的一串念珠.
期刊摘选
A vigil service and rosary are scheduled for Wednesday night, with a funeral Mass on Thursday.
星期三晚上会有守灵和诵经的活动, 葬礼在星期四举行.
期刊摘选
Could meet one Sunday after the rosary.
随便哪个星期天,等诵完玫瑰经,不妨见见.
期刊摘选
He took rosary beads from his pocket and began to pray silently.
他从口袋中取出念珠,开始默默祈祷.
辞典例句
You must say rosary eight times for your sins.
你必须念八次玫瑰经赎罪.
期刊摘选
The priest fidgeted nervously with his black rosary beads.
牧师紧张地拨弄着他的黑色念珠。
辞典例句
Estrada took a rosary from his tunic and ran the beads through the fingers of one hand.
