litany的意思|litany的解释-里氏词典

litany ['litәni]

n. 连祷, 连续

litany

[ noun ]

any long and tedious address or recital

<noun.communication>

the patient recited a litany of complaints

a litany of failures

a prayer consisting of a series of invocations by the priest with responses from the congregation

<noun.communication>

Litany \Lit"a*ny\ (l[i^]t"[.a]*n[y^]), n.; pl. {Litanies}
(l[i^]t"[.a]*n[i^]z). [OE. letanie, OF. letanie, F. litanie,
L. litania, Gr. litanei`a, fr. litaney`ein to pray, akin to
li`tesqai, li`ssesqai, to pray, lith` prayer.]
A solemn form of supplication in the public worship of
various churches, in which the clergy and congregation join,
the former leading and the latter responding in alternate
sentences. It is usually of a penitential character.

Supplications . . . for the appeasing of God's wrath
were of the Greek church termed litanies, and rogations
of the Latin. --Hooker.

Agreed debt restructuring is now underway, but the company's future remains in doubt, not least because of a litany of alleged fraud and malpractice at Goodman plants.
Yet, there is more to the man than this, and his memory should not be colored by the litany of intemperate remarks and thorn-in-the-side actions.
Yet his current 30-city concert tour is scarcely a litany of death squads, human-rights abuses and anti-apartheid slogans.
Jim Robinson, Henry Street's gruff-spoken director of youth services, recites a litany of changes he has seen in 20 years of social service: "I have many more competitors," he says.
Alone, they both produced a litany of hit romantic records.
As the Schrothkur litany says, seasoning arouses appetites, and you do not need an appetite when you are not supposed to be eating. So it continues: lunch, then dinner and back to the breakfast grindstone. The worst is a dish of sauerkraut soup.
They also account for a substantial chunk in the long litany of recent small company collapses. Sometimes, it is a case of too many newsagents in one neighbourhood, or a village where economic life has been deadened by weekenders.
For stock investors, a litany of negative news Friday fanned fears of surging inflation and much higher interest rates.
Do Something," read the ad, which included a litany of demands, including the mission's belief that priests should be male.
Shaking their heads in disbelief and disgust, members of Parliament listened Friday to a litany of corruption involving leaders who rigidly maintained a spartan society for their people while indulging in excess.
He was in a New York suburb, addressing senior citizens who had just listened to a litany of legislative accomplishments from Sen. Albert Gore Jr., one of his rivals for the presidential nomination.
That hopeful report was later overshadowed by a litany of woe from several sources.
Where one is reined in, another will burst loose. The litany will run to innuendoes about Bill Clinton's marriage, his alleged draft dodging and his wife's perceived radical feminism.
Just before the events of June 1989, Mr. Griem of A. T. Kearney found companies grappling with a litany of problems.
The grim statistical litany of life on Pine Ridge tells reams about what has happened to the Sioux in the 100 years since the West was won.
It was a familiar litany from Chinese leaders at their Central Economic Work Conference in Beijing last week.
He declined to respond to what he called the latest "litany" of criticism of Bush from Saddam.
Abroad, there are demands. In the government there is a litany: No deals, but every avenue that might lead to freedom for eight captive Americans is being pursued.
The highly popular broadcast has become a real-life soap opera, a daily litany of money troubles, loneliness, death and other family crises.
Shohat went through what he termed "the litany of lies" testified to by several members of Ward's group of American smugglers.
Inflation _ you know the litany _ inflation was 13 percent when we came in. We got it down to four.
But in an outpouring of emotion and frustration, the relatives voiced a litany of other complaints, ranging from their inability to recover their loved ones' personal effects to the handling of the victims' remains.
This litany of under-performance could be extended ad nauseam. Bock's past does not suggest that he is the man to address that particular gargantuan task.
Northrop Corp. added to the litany of woes for California's aerospace industry by announcing it would trim its workforce by 7 percent because of defense spending cuts on its B-2 bomber.
The families of both can recite a litany of deaths, injuries, arrests and humiliations at the hands of Israeli soldiers.
On Sept. 7 the SEC accused Drexel and the other defendants of scheming with now-imprisoned insider trader Ivan Boesky to break a litany of securities-fraud laws.
"There's a litany of problems facing the market right now," said Robert S. Robbins, technical analyst and market strategist at Robinson-Humphrey.

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