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 monastery ['mɒnәstәri]   添加此单词到默认生词本
n. 修道院, 僧侣



    monastery
    [ noun ]
    the residence of a religious community
    <noun.artifact>


    Monastery \Mon"as*te*ry\, n.; pl. {Monasteries}. [L.
    monasterium, Gr. ?, fr. ? a solitary, a monk, fr. ? to be
    alone, live in solitude, fr. mo`nos alone. Cf. {Minister}.]
    A house of religious retirement, or of secusion from ordinary
    temporal concerns, especially for monks; -- more rarely
    applied to such a house for females.

    Syn: Convent; abbey; priory. See {Cloister}.

    1. But an appeal filed in July 1988 on other issues remains unanswered, and the nuns will not leave the monastery until it is, she said.
    2. A group of Carmelite nuns protesting what they call the liberalization of their order began the fifth month barricaded in their monastery's infirmary Saturday with no apparent sign of coming out.
    3. The manager of the San Domenico Palace, a hotel of old-fashioned splendour and luxury built out of a Dominican monastery, blamed the unseasonal weather.
    4. The five held out through threatened evictions by Rodimer, hoping their appeal to the Vatican would overrule the bishop's order to leave the monastery.
    5. The nuns locked themselves in the infirmary Oct. 4, saying they were afraid officials wanted to expel them from the monastery for their dissident views.
    6. Sparks from a makeshift food stall were blamed Wednesday for a fire that killed 47 Christian pilgrims, most of them children, who had camped outside a monastery to pay homage to the Virgin Mary.
    7. Fearing they would be evicted from the monastery because their conservative views clashed with the new wave of liberalization, four nuns locked themselves in the infirmary of the Monastery of the Most Blessed Virgin Mary of Mt.
    8. When the monastery fired its plumber, the Interior Ministry pressed for his rehiring, the paper said.
    9. Imbibing beer made beyond Germany's borders is out of the question for Ulrich Schulenberger, an elderly patron who has come from Munich on a recent sunny day to the monastery's 4,000-seat beer hall.
    10. Rather than teaching business ethics in the classroom, it sends students four times a year to the French Alps to study with Benedictine monks at the monastery of Notre-Dame de Ganagobie.
    11. The letter from Gandan monastery in Ulan Bator was the first time Mongolia's tiny but influentual community of monks had called for religious freedom.
    12. Robert Thurman, a professor at Columbia University, said that Tsong Khapa revitalized Buddhism in Tibet and started a Gyuto monastery 514 years ago.
    13. "He said he came here to assess whether this is an authentic Carmelite monastery," Sister Bernadette said. "We kept telling him we have a case in Rome." The Carmelite nuns today entered their 14th day in self-segregation.
    14. Walesa said he planned to remain in Warsaw through Friday before departing for the southern city of Czestochowa to attend a workers' pilgrimage over the weekend at the Jasna Gora monastery.
    15. Also within a few miles of Leninakan is an 11th century Marmashen church and a 13th century monastery called Harich, which has a museum that may contain priceless medieval gospel manuscripts, Manuelian said.
    16. They were involved in throwing rocks, burning vehicles and the death of a policeman who was beaten and flung from a monastery window.
    17. Five nuns protesting the liberalization of their order plan to spend a sixth month barricaded in their monastery unless they are convinced of the legitimacy of a Vatican directive to stop.
    18. You've got to come to a deeper realization of the truth," says monastery vice abbot Junpo Dennis Kelly.
    19. He spoke at a Lithuanian Franciscan monastery that was established in 1947 by Franciscan fathers who escaped from Lithuania when that country fell to invading Soviet troops.
    20. The monks don't want their monastery overshadowed by a huge industrial plant.
    21. On Wednesday, a West German newspaper reported that Lutheran and Catholic church leaders had offered to house Honecker in church facilities for the elderly or at a monastery to protect him from enraged citizens.
    22. He and his family then sped off in a waiting car to a monastery at Curtea de Arges, 87 miles west of Bucharest, where the king's ancestors are buried.
    23. The day began with religious ceremonies at one of Serbia's holiest shrines, the 14th century Byzantine-style monastery of Gracanica near Pristina, the provincial capital.
    24. The first expedition virtually starved to death in the bush, but a second start was made at the present site five years later. The oldest wing of the monastery dates from that time but feels older.
    25. About 100 buildings are on the monastery grounds, which are dotted with caves in which religious leaders and early princes of Kiev were buried.
    26. The monastery was established by a dozen nuns in 1984 in a former theater in the middle of Auschwitz, setting off a storm of protest by European Jews who believe the camp should be left as an undisturbed memorial to its victims.
    27. One of the Carmelite nuns remained locked in the monastery's infirmary on Sunday, refusing to leave.
    28. Meanwhile, the man who defeated him, President-elect Lech Walesa, went to Poland's holiest Catholic shrine in Czestochowa today to pay homage to the Black Madonna icon at the Jasna Gora monastery.
    29. Bishop Frank Rodimer says five nuns who remain barricaded in a monastery to protest changes in their way of life are causing a scandal in the Roman Catholic Church.
    30. A rambling letter from a Brother Gabriel at a monastery in Big Sur, Calif., raves about the product.
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