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secular/ˈsekjʊlə/ adj. & n.●adj. 1 concerned with the affairs of this world; not spiritual or sacred 现世的；世俗的 2 (of education etc.) not concerned with religion or religious belief (教育)非宗教的；非宗教信仰的 3a not ecclesiastical or monastic 非宗教的；非僧侣的 b (of clergy) not bound by a religious rule (神职人员)不受宗教誓约约束的 4 occurring once in an age or century 一个时代(或一个世纪)发生一次的 5a lasting for or occurring over an indefinitely long time 长久的；永久的 b Astron. of or designating slow changes in the motion of the sun or planets 【天】(天体运动)缓慢变化的 ●n. a secular priest 世俗教士 □ secularism n. 现世主义；世俗主义 □ secularist n.□ secularity /-ˈlæriti/ n.□ secularize v. tr. (also 亦作 -ise)□ secularization /-ˈzeiʃ(ə)n/ n.□ secularly adv.[Middle English (in senses 1 － 3 via Old French seculer) from Latin saecularis, from saeculum ‘generation, age’, in ecclesiastical Latin = the world (as opposed to the Church)] |