| 单词 | rite of passage |
| 释义 | rite of passagerite of passage SSYTRADITIONa special ceremony or action that is a sign of a new stage in someone’s life, especially when a boy starts to become a man 〔标志人生重要阶段的〕通过仪式；〔尤指男孩的〕成人仪式 → coming of age Examples from the Corpus rite of passage• For many fans, metal, with its pile-driving sound and locker-room lyrics, is more than a rite of passage.• A rite of passage, as it were.• Boyhood pledges and rites of passage, boy pages learning skills of survival from men of iron.• After the umpteenth rubber-stamp this infuriating rite of passage, as it were, terminates: exit.• Marriage, though not the social imperative it once was, still stands for a major rite of passage into adult life.• This idyllic feeling of romance seemed too much like a temporary state, a schoolboy rite of passage.• Finishing the race is the rite of passage of the distance runner.• One lucky trainee was spared the rite of passage. → rite of passage at rite(1) |
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