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cardinal/ˈkɑ:d(i)n(ə)l/ n. & adj.●n. 1 (as a title 用作头衔 Cardinal) a leading dignitary of the Roman Catholic Church, one of the college electing the Pope (罗马天主教会的)红衣主教 2 any American songbird of the subfamily Cardinalinae, esp. the common Cardinalis cardinalis, the male of which has scarlet plumage 红衣凤头鸟(尤指美洲凤鸟亚科鸣禽，雄鸟羽毛为鲜红色) 3 hist. a woman's cloak, originally of scarlet cloth with a hood [史义] (一种原为红色的)带风帽女式斗篷 ●adj. 1 chief, fundamental; on which something hinges 主要的，基本的 2 of deep scarlet (like a cardinal's cassock) 鲜红的，深红的 □ cardinalate /-leit/ n. (in sense 1 of n. 用于名词释义 1)□ cardinally adv.□ cardinalship n. (in sense 1 of n. 用于名词释义 1)[Middle English via Old French from Latin cardinalis, from cardo -inis ‘hinge’: in English first applied to the four virtues on which conduct ‘hinges’] |