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单词 religion
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Definition of religion in English:

religion

noun rɪˈlɪdʒ(ə)nrəˈlɪdʒən
mass noun
  • 1The belief in and worship of a superhuman controlling power, especially a personal God or gods.

    宗教

    ideas about the relationship between science and religion

    关于科学和宗教的关系的看法。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • I am a person for whom religion has never been important in my life, and I am really scared of the power of religion now.
    • On the other, they say religion has little power to bring peace and harmony to the world.
    • The secularization debate is primarily concerned with the role or power of religion and churches in society.
    • It is best known, of course, for its extreme views on religion and morality and personal conduct.
    • Organised religion is based on far more abstract concepts.
    • The freedom to manifest religion or belief in worship, observance, practice and teaching encompasses a broad range of acts.
    • Many people today are saying how organised religion does nothing for society, and it helps no one.
    • On her death bed, his mother confided that she finally understood the power of religion in his life.
    • Have westernised intellectuals underestimated the power of religion?
    • But, as Karl Marx put it, religion is also the opiate of the people.
    • While it's true that religion is a deeply personal issue, entertainment is not.
    • If people believe in religion it means they don't believe in science.
    • We had been schooled to dismiss them as being objects of religion, ritual and superstition.
    • Later chapters return to the relationship among religion, politics and power.
    • He understood the ideological power of religion as well as its miraculous strength.
    • Bonaparte, however, had never made the mistake of underestimating either the power of religion or the resilience of the Church.
    • I feel that religion or religious beliefs should not be used as an argument against the rights given to private people.
    • He finds no use for organized religion in the life and conduct of intelligent men.
    • Since when has religion and one's personal spiritual belief become the focal point of a candidacy?
    • Instead of rewriting history and using religion as a power tool, he would rather that politicians embrace technology.
    Synonyms
    faith, belief, divinity, worship, creed, teaching, doctrine, theology
    sect, cult, religious group, faith community, church, denomination, body, following, persuasion, affiliation
    1. 1.1count noun A particular system of faith and worship.
      宗教
      the world's great religions

      世界上的主要宗教。

      Example sentencesExamples
      • Is the problem that Judaism is a religion as well as an ethnicity?
      • Yet the power of our civic religion lies not in any sanctions it imposes but in the moral sensibility it nurtures.
      • Church and state are separate today, but Catholicism is the religion of the great majority.
      • After having done the study I came to realize that Buddhism is a family religion.
      • Regardless of your religion or personal beliefs, I will always stand against censorship.
      • Buddhism is the majority religion there, and a particularly militant strain predominates.
      • The official state religion is Roman Catholicism, but Evangelical Protestant movements are making converts among traditional Catholic believers.
      • The roots of Japanese mythology are in the Shinto religion, in Taoism and in Zen Buddhism alike.
      • Secularism does not reject religion but attempts to bar any single religion from gaining political control.
      • Wicca is a nature religion based upon beliefs and rites believed to be rooted in ancient practices.
      • Notice that they converted to Lutheranism, although Catholicism was the majority religion in Vienna and in Austria.
      • And we did not practice Buddhist or Shinto religions.
      • Hinduism is a complex religion, and there are many paths in it.
      • Yet Wicca is a religion, you can't invent it as you go along.
      • They don't see the truth because they come here to impose their religion's power.
      • Many refused full equality to adherents of minority religions until well into the century.
      • Christianity is a liberating religion, and forgiveness of sins is a liberating experience.
      • No organized religion preaches murder and hatred of innocent people.
      • Those who believe in pluralism think that every religion has spiritual power.
      • Christianity is the religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus Christ.
      Synonyms
      faith, religious belief, religious beliefs, religious persuasion, religious conviction, religious group, faith community, church
    2. 1.2count noun A pursuit or interest followed with great devotion.
      consumerism is the new religion

      现在的新信条是消费主义。

      Example sentencesExamples
      • This brings up another point: hockey in the BCHL ceases to be a religion and becomes secondary to education.
      • In this city where rugby is a religion, there is the feeling that Moses has led them to the mountaintop.
      • We've been told time and again that cricket is a religion in India.
      • Online marketers realize that return on investment is the religion they need to follow.
      • The consequent pursuit of thinness had become a new religion, she said, and she showed a range of advertisements to support her claims.
      • The pursuit of eating raw food has become a religion of the nuttier kind.
      • It's the backdrop because football is considered a religion worldwide and the most viewed game.
      • It serves only one master - corporate greed - that is their religion and their power.

Phrases

  • get religion

    • informal Be converted to religious belief and practices.

      〈非正式〉皈依宗教

      he got religion and gave his money to the poor
      Example sentencesExamples
      • He's a fellah I was at school with who was a gardener, but he got religion so keep away from him.
      • Billboards used to ask us to get religion and go to ‘the church of [our] choice.’
      • They got religion, and they're going crazy and that's great.
      • Others got religion or turned to booze as a way of salving their incurable ache for space.
      • When he got religion, it was framed as a rejection of the rest of his career, and he had to backpedal or move on (depending on how you look at it), before he had a chance to speak to his wider audience again.
      • I'm hardly an authority on saints, or irony, but am I right in thinking that, before he got religion, St. Andrew was a Middle Eastern fisherman?
      • He knew she'd got religion because she'd said as much, but whatever it was, he hadn't wanted any part of it for himself.
      • Three lives collide after a car crash: transplant patient/mathematician Sean Penn, grieving mother Naomi Watts and Benicio del Toro as an ex-con who got religion.
      • Many people in rehab, and in defeat, get religion.
      • To her, though, it will always be the place where she got religion.

Derivatives

  • religionless

  • adjective
    • When he says a religionless Christianity, he means what he in another context calls ‘this worldly Christianity’.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • He championed a religionless kind of secular Christianity which he exemplified by his own life and his death in a concentration camp.
      • When he says the books are religionless I suppose he means that a struggle for good isn't religious - only religious rituals count.
      • But it was a religionless reading, and later he realized that the prophets cannot be understood apart from God.

Origin

Middle English (originally in the sense 'life under monastic vows'): from Old French, or from Latin religio(n-) 'obligation, bond, reverence', perhaps based on Latin religare 'to bind'.

Rhymes

irreligion

Definition of religion in US English:

religion

nounrəˈlɪdʒənrəˈlijən
  • 1The belief in and worship of a superhuman controlling power, especially a personal God or gods.

    宗教

    ideas about the relationship between science and religion

    关于科学和宗教的关系的看法。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • But, as Karl Marx put it, religion is also the opiate of the people.
    • Have westernised intellectuals underestimated the power of religion?
    • It is best known, of course, for its extreme views on religion and morality and personal conduct.
    • We had been schooled to dismiss them as being objects of religion, ritual and superstition.
    • The freedom to manifest religion or belief in worship, observance, practice and teaching encompasses a broad range of acts.
    • I feel that religion or religious beliefs should not be used as an argument against the rights given to private people.
    • If people believe in religion it means they don't believe in science.
    • The secularization debate is primarily concerned with the role or power of religion and churches in society.
    • I am a person for whom religion has never been important in my life, and I am really scared of the power of religion now.
    • Organised religion is based on far more abstract concepts.
    • Since when has religion and one's personal spiritual belief become the focal point of a candidacy?
    • Later chapters return to the relationship among religion, politics and power.
    • Instead of rewriting history and using religion as a power tool, he would rather that politicians embrace technology.
    • He finds no use for organized religion in the life and conduct of intelligent men.
    • While it's true that religion is a deeply personal issue, entertainment is not.
    • He understood the ideological power of religion as well as its miraculous strength.
    • On the other, they say religion has little power to bring peace and harmony to the world.
    • Many people today are saying how organised religion does nothing for society, and it helps no one.
    • On her death bed, his mother confided that she finally understood the power of religion in his life.
    • Bonaparte, however, had never made the mistake of underestimating either the power of religion or the resilience of the Church.
    Synonyms
    faith, belief, divinity, worship, creed, teaching, doctrine, theology
    1. 1.1 A particular system of faith and worship.
      宗教
      the world's great religions

      世界上的主要宗教。

      Example sentencesExamples
      • They don't see the truth because they come here to impose their religion's power.
      • Christianity is the religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus Christ.
      • Hinduism is a complex religion, and there are many paths in it.
      • Christianity is a liberating religion, and forgiveness of sins is a liberating experience.
      • The roots of Japanese mythology are in the Shinto religion, in Taoism and in Zen Buddhism alike.
      • Secularism does not reject religion but attempts to bar any single religion from gaining political control.
      • The official state religion is Roman Catholicism, but Evangelical Protestant movements are making converts among traditional Catholic believers.
      • Yet the power of our civic religion lies not in any sanctions it imposes but in the moral sensibility it nurtures.
      • Many refused full equality to adherents of minority religions until well into the century.
      • After having done the study I came to realize that Buddhism is a family religion.
      • No organized religion preaches murder and hatred of innocent people.
      • Church and state are separate today, but Catholicism is the religion of the great majority.
      • Those who believe in pluralism think that every religion has spiritual power.
      • Notice that they converted to Lutheranism, although Catholicism was the majority religion in Vienna and in Austria.
      • Regardless of your religion or personal beliefs, I will always stand against censorship.
      • And we did not practice Buddhist or Shinto religions.
      • Wicca is a nature religion based upon beliefs and rites believed to be rooted in ancient practices.
      • Buddhism is the majority religion there, and a particularly militant strain predominates.
      • Is the problem that Judaism is a religion as well as an ethnicity?
      • Yet Wicca is a religion, you can't invent it as you go along.
      Synonyms
      faith, religious belief, religious beliefs, religious persuasion, religious conviction, religious group, faith community, church
    2. 1.2 A pursuit or interest to which someone ascribes supreme importance.
      至上的事业;孜孜不倦追求的目标;利益攸关之事
      consumerism is the new religion

      现在的新信条是消费主义。

      Example sentencesExamples
      • In this city where rugby is a religion, there is the feeling that Moses has led them to the mountaintop.
      • It serves only one master - corporate greed - that is their religion and their power.
      • The consequent pursuit of thinness had become a new religion, she said, and she showed a range of advertisements to support her claims.
      • Online marketers realize that return on investment is the religion they need to follow.
      • It's the backdrop because football is considered a religion worldwide and the most viewed game.
      • We've been told time and again that cricket is a religion in India.
      • This brings up another point: hockey in the BCHL ceases to be a religion and becomes secondary to education.
      • The pursuit of eating raw food has become a religion of the nuttier kind.

Phrases

  • get religion

    • informal Be converted to religious belief and practices.

      〈非正式〉皈依宗教

      Example sentencesExamples
      • To her, though, it will always be the place where she got religion.
      • He knew she'd got religion because she'd said as much, but whatever it was, he hadn't wanted any part of it for himself.
      • When he got religion, it was framed as a rejection of the rest of his career, and he had to backpedal or move on (depending on how you look at it), before he had a chance to speak to his wider audience again.
      • Many people in rehab, and in defeat, get religion.
      • Three lives collide after a car crash: transplant patient/mathematician Sean Penn, grieving mother Naomi Watts and Benicio del Toro as an ex-con who got religion.
      • Billboards used to ask us to get religion and go to ‘the church of [our] choice.’
      • He's a fellah I was at school with who was a gardener, but he got religion so keep away from him.
      • Others got religion or turned to booze as a way of salving their incurable ache for space.
      • They got religion, and they're going crazy and that's great.
      • I'm hardly an authority on saints, or irony, but am I right in thinking that, before he got religion, St. Andrew was a Middle Eastern fisherman?

Origin

Middle English (originally in the sense ‘life under monastic vows’): from Old French, or from Latin religio(n-) ‘obligation, bond, reverence’, perhaps based on Latin religare ‘to bind’.

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