英汉词典

secular 基本解释

• adj. 世俗的；长期的；现世的；不朽的
• n. 修道院外的教士，(对宗教家而言的) 俗人

secular 中文词源

来自拉丁语 saecularis,现时的，现世的，来自 saeculum,现时，现世，可能来自 PIE*se,播种， 耕种，词源同 seed,semen.-cul,-culum,工具格后缀，词源同 oracle,hibernacle.比喻用法，即相 比于神和宗教的永恒，种子只有一次生命过程，引申词义世俗的，非宗教的。

secular 英文词源

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.

secular 英文释义

1. concerning those not members of the clergy;

"set his collar in laic rather than clerical position"

"the lay ministry"

"the choir sings both sacred and secular music"

secular 双语例句

1. The church can only go so far in secular matters.

教会在世俗事务上只能做这么多。

来自柯林斯例句

2. Ours is a secular society.

我们的社会是个世俗社会。

来自《权威词典》

3. We live in an increasingly secular society.

我们生活在一个日益非宗教的社会.

来自《简明英汉词典》

4. Mexico is a secular state and does not have diplomatic relations with the Vatican.

墨西哥是个世俗国家，和梵蒂冈没有外交关系。

来自柯林斯例句

5. Cardinal Daly has said that churches should not be used for profane or secular purposes.

戴利主教已经说过，教堂不应该用于非宗教或世俗的目的。

来自柯林斯例句

secular 实用场景例句

secular music

世俗音乐

牛津词典

Ours is a secular society.

我们的社会是个世俗社会。

牛津词典

He spoke about preserving the country as a secular state.

他谈及了保持该国世俗化的问题。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

...secular and religious education.

世俗教育和宗教教育

柯林斯高阶英语词典

The three main secular parties in the ruling coalition have kept quiet.

执政联盟中的三大世俗党派一直保持沉默.

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A secular shift to inflation in the US, reversing two decades of disinflationary policy.

美国向通货膨胀的长期转变扭转了二十年来的反通货膨胀政策.

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Atheist China is now the site for a very secular form of pilgrimage.

无神论的中国现在成了一种非常世俗的朝拜形式的目的地.

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At first glance, Japan is one of the most secular nations the world.

乍看上去, 日本是世界上最世俗化的国家之一.

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They established secular education, thereby breaking the educational monopoly of the monasteries.

他们建立了世俗教育, 从而打破了教育的垄断地位寺庙.

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The temporal variation of it has secular change, seasonal variation, irregular variation, and other scales variation.

重力场的时变有长期变化 、 季节性变化 、 不规则变化和其他多尺度的变化.

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The combination of secular and religious earnest produced an age rich in popular devotion to God.

世俗安全和宗教热情的结合,产生了一个富于对上帝的大众化奉献的时代.

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He the gift of tongues in a way shared by none of the world's secular leaders.

他精通数国外语,他的语言能力是世界上的世俗领袖不能与之相比的.

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An Analysis on the Three Categories of Images " Hooligan " ,'secular " and " Bigot "

探寻者的历程--王朔作品中的“流氓 ” 、”俗人 ” 、 “ 顽主”形象分析.

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The first sector has inquired the social and cultural backgrounds of the secular education.

第一部分对罗马帝国世俗教育的社会文化背景进行了探讨.

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Do you believe in perpetual love in this secular world?

在这个世俗的世界你还相信有天长地久的爱情 吗 ?

辞典例句

The secular world would be shattered, too.

这个世俗的世界也会被毁灭.

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Forget about the outside world the city impetuous, forget secular strife, is not an enjoyment?

忘却喧嚣浮躁的尘世, 忘却世俗的纷争, 是不是一种享受?

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In other words , there's no question in my mind that there's been a secular change.

换言之, 在我看来长期的变化是必然的.

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We live in an increasingly secular society.

我们生活在一个日益非宗教的社会.

《简明英汉词典》

His stance was mainstream in Catholic Poland but shocked secular European opinion.

在信奉天主教的波兰,他的观点是主流,不过此举却令欧洲世俗舆论哗然.

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Turkey, since its creation in 1923, has been a strictly secular state.

土耳其自从1923年建国以来, 一直是一个严格的政教分离国家.

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Academic power in early medieval universities gradually developed in the extrusion of the church, secular society.

早期中世纪大学的学术权力是在教会和世俗社会的挤压中逐步发展起来的.

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Money worship is the extreme presentation of the secular utility values.

拜金主义是世俗功利价值观的极端形式.

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Today, the Olympics Games are secular events.

而今天奥运会的运动都是与宗教无关的比赛项目.

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By contrast Syria, long secular under the Baath party's rule, denies political rights without sexual discrimination.

相比之下, 长期在阿拉伯复兴社会党世俗统治下的叙利亚则公开承认, 政治权利是带有性别歧视的.

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Secular factors are more long term in nature.

长期因素却是长期的.

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Without the PPP somethinglike it, Pakistan may have no easily imaginable secular and democratic future.

没有人民力量党等,巴勒斯坦可能会很难想象有一个安全和民主的前景.

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The East, abandoning its secular magnificence was descending into a valley.

这就是东方, 失去了世世代代享有的荣华,落入了一条深谷的东方.

辞典例句