1The occasion of a person's birth.

我的出生地。

1. 1.1usually the Nativity The birth of Jesus Christ.
   耶稣的诞生
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   • Another teacher had spoken of an angel at the Bethlehem nativity, who had taken pity on a tiny fir-tree, and had commanded a star cluster to rest on its boughs.
   • Was there a moon in the sky during the night of the nativity?
   • Julia also had slides of three windows in Canterbury Cathedral illustrating the tale of the Three Wise Men and their part in the story of the nativity.
   • Most readers may be surprised to learn that Mark and John don't mention the nativity at all and Matthew and Luke were not written until around 80 to 85AD.
   • The lessons appointed for the first Sunday of Advent, however, point not to the nativity, but to the Second Coming.
   • This delightful carol, often called The Polish Carol, tells the story of the nativity in a simple, childlike manner.
   • We act out the nativity and sing about 50 Christmas carols, it's lots of fun.
   • Religious elements aside, the story of the nativity has always moved me.
   • Candles were added in the 17th century to symbolise the starlit sky on the night of the nativity - before that, they were hung with paper roses and apples to honour Mary.
   • The Qu'ran has also verses on the Annunciation, Visitation, and Nativity.
   • The children from the Convent Primary School acted out the story of the nativity in drama and in song.
   • Today church pews across Scotland will fill up with worshippers, drawn by faith - or simply tradition - to sing carols and listen to the story of the nativity.
   • What a truly great mystery is the Nativity of our Lord!
   • He started by examining the story of the nativity, sorting out the account given in The Bible from the mythology that was added later.
   • Students were asked to paint a scene depicting the nativity.
   • Jeremiah wondered how many Brotherhood artists had attended the crucifixion, or sketched pictures of the nativity.
   • Naturally you will also be banned from smoking in public, owning a Bible, sending Christmas cards that feature the nativity and smacking your children.
2. 1.2 A picture, carving, or model representing Jesus Christ's birth.
   耶稣诞生图（或诞生像）
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   • Pupils have brought some traditional festive cheer to a small rural village, by repairing nativity figures and a crib.
   • Yep, the guy behind this quote is the guy who attacked the Tussaud's nativity in December last year.
   • The display was erected after the county commission allowed a nativity display to go up.
   • At our church, a small nativity was set, beautiful, with hand carved figured, painted with extraordinary detail.
   • This is the ninth year of the nativity crib which will be open to the public from 10 pm to 6pm daily until December 23.
   • There are 142 stalls with gift items, children's toys, figures for nativity cribs, Christmas decorations, mulled wine, grilled sausages, and gingerbread.
   • At Christmas, the town was dismayed when a nativity crib was stolen from a pensioner's garden.
   • Also featured are Caravaggio's Nativity with San Lorenzo and San Francisco, Cezanne's View of Auvers-sur-Oise and Da Vinci's Madonna of the Yarnwinder.
   • The couple also had a nativity in a stable, which Mr Hope had built himself with figures of camels, donkeys and the three wise men which were more than two feet tall.
   • A couple that vandalized a nativity display got to march through town with the donkey.
   • The souvenir shops, with their olive wood crucifixes and mother of pearl nativity tableaux, are shuttered.
   • Also straight ahead a Christmas scene for those with a sweet tooth, the world's largest nativity made out of chocolate.
   • The only painting of his to change hands in recent years was a Nativity, stolen in 1969 from a church in Palermo - where Caravaggio had painted it after having escaped from gaol in Malta.
   • The actors comprised mainly of children who portrayed the various nativity characters.
   • From the advent crown suspended above the nave to the metal nativity figures which are assembled in time for the Crib Service on Christmas Eve, there is always something seasonal to enjoy in the Minster.
   • But this year, residents are fuming after drunken pranksters stole the nativity figures.
   • Entitled ‘A Traditional Christmas’ the presentation featured a nativity tableau, traditional carols, poems and rhymes.
   • This year we filled 200 Christmas gift shoeboxes for the Samaritans appeal while a group of Year 8 pupils made and sold nativity sets to raise money for the Pendle Hospice.
   • Mystery still surrounds the theft of a nativity statue set that was stolen from the Catholic church in Horwich on New Year's Day.
   • After we three are home and warm and mama is sprawled asleep, the kid builds a shoebox nativity and the cats and I make a heap.
   • But still, they leave, not just with their olivewood nativity sets and their rosaries, but with their faith.
3. 1.3 A nativity play.
   圣诞剧
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   • Then her teachers noticed she wasn't herself and Melissa told me it was because she didn't want to be in the school nativity.
   • It was lovely to hear and see youngsters enjoying themselves doing a Nativity.
   • If you played Joseph or Mary or an angel at the school nativity, you should not be denied that happy memory.
   • Sammy played a donkey in Turton and Edgworth CE Primary School's 1992 nativity.
   • Christmas shopping, decorating the tree, carol singing, the school nativity, wrapping presents, roast turkey followed by Christmas pudding… the list goes on.
   • On the scrap heap at thirteen, and after my magnificent Herod in the nativity not two years previous.
   • The infants enjoyed their traditional run-up to Christmas in the last few weeks of term with their own version of the nativity, performed for their parents.
   • Hundreds of children have been visiting Roves Farm near Swindon to take part in the nativity with a cast of live animals.
   • The play group manager says it was the first nativity in more than 30 years.
   • Tots at the nursery had their first taste of acting when they staged a nativity with a modern twist.
   • The Community Church Christmas program co-ordinator said the idea of using live animals in the nativity had been suggested by a visiting minister.
   • An awkward, gangly youth known to her peers as ‘Storky’, she made her theatrical debut in a nativity aged six and promptly devoted herself to the world of theatre.
   • The show stealers of the nativity were the two word perfect girls who played the innkeepers, and the little lad playing Herod.
4. 1.4 The Christian festival of Christ's birth; Christmas.
   圣诞节
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   • It was Francis, after all, who ‘humanized’ the nativity of Jesus by celebrating a Christmas Mass in a stable in Greccio in 1223.

   Synonyms

   christmas, christmastime, christmastide, festive season
5. 1.5Astrology dated A horoscope relating to the time of birth; a birth chart.
   〔占星〕〈旧〉（人诞生时的）天宫图
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   • A solar return occurs when the sun in the birth nativity returns to its original position, on the birthday of the individual in question.
   • Encompassing chart calculation, horary, decumbiture, nativities and directions, it was the first comprehensive astrological textbook to be written in English rather than Latin.
   • This nativity has many indications of great success.
   • Uranus, which was discovered 11 years after his birth, is prominent in his nativity and there is a powerful resonance between his own chart and that set for the discovery.
   • To have many planets debilitated in this way in a nativity is considered a sign of obscurity and low birth.