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 observance [əb'zɚvəns]   添加此单词到默认生词本
n. 观察, 遵守, 仪式, 风俗习惯

[法] 遵守, 奉行, 惯例


  1. The worker was praised for his observance of the rules.
    这个工人因为严格遵守规则而受到了表扬。
  2. An act of religious observance or prayer, especially when private.
    祈祷宗教仪式的活动或祷告的行为,尤指秘密的进行的


observance
[ noun ]
  1. the act of observing; taking a patient look

  2. <noun.act>
  3. a formal event performed on a special occasion

  4. <noun.event>
    a ceremony commemorating Pearl Harbor
  5. the act of noticing or paying attention

  6. <noun.cognition>
    he escaped the notice of the police
  7. conformity with law or custom or practice etc.

  8. <noun.act>


Observance \Ob*serv"ance\, n. [F. observance, L. observantia.
See {Observant}.]
1. The act or practice of observing or noticing with
attention; a heeding or keeping with care; performance; --
usually with a sense of strictness and fidelity; as, the
observance of the Sabbath is general; the strict
observance of duties.

It is a custom
More honored in the breach than the observance.
--Shak.

2. An act, ceremony, or rite, as of worship or respect;
especially, a customary act or service of attention; a
form; a practice; a rite; a custom.

At dances
These young folk kept their observances. --Chaucer.

Use all the observance of civility. --Shak.

Some represent to themselves the whole of religion
as consisting in a few easy observances. --Rogers.

O I that wasted time to tend upon her,
To compass her with sweet observances! --Tennyson.

3. Servile attention; sycophancy. [Obs.]

Salads and flesh, such as their haste could get,
Served with observance. --Chapman.

This is not atheism,
But court observance. --Beau. & Fl.

Syn: {Observance}, {Observation}. These words are
discriminated by the two distinct senses of observe. To
observe means (1) to keep strictly; as, to observe a
fast day, and hence, observance denotes the keeping or
heeding with strictness; (2) to consider attentively, or
to remark; and hence, observation denotes either the act
of observing, or some remark made as the result thereof.
We do not say the observation of Sunday, though the word
was formerly so used. The Pharisees were curious in
external observances; the astronomers are curious in
celestial observations.

Love rigid honesty,
And strict observance of impartial laws.
--Roscommon.

  1. The companies were shut down Monday because of the observance of Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday.
  2. More than 50,000 ribbons were distributed to schools, government agencies and businesses in Nevada by the Governor's Alliance for a Drug Free Nevada in observance of National Drug Free America Week, which began Sunday.
  3. Stock exchanges and commodity markets in the U.S. will be closed tomorrow in observance of Good Friday.
  4. Vatican Radio has said the observance will include a Mass celebrated by the pope and Ukrainian bishops in St. Peter's Basilica on July 10.
  5. The United Nations proclaimed the observance to recognize scientific and technological advances that help save lives and lessen property damage.
  6. Organizers of Earth Day 1990 have contacted Stern about a possible role for Zen in that observance.
  7. LIFE MAGAZINE: In observance of Earth Day, Life Magazine's May issue will drop its trademark red logo for a special version in green.
  8. He helped direct the first international observance of United Nations Day and was President Truman's undersecretary of labor.
  9. Their rise hinged on the heritage of Hanukkah, whose eight-day observance begins at sundown Friday.
  10. Yale has commissioned Lin to design a sculpture to celebrate new generations of Yale women on campus, culminating a yearlong observance of the 20th anniversary.
  11. Stock exchanges, commodities markets, banks and many businesses will be closed throughout the U.S. Monday in observance of Memorial Day.
  12. What is needed is a substantial effort to win observance of the original peace agreement, even if that means postponement of elections. China needs to exert leverage on the Khmer Rouge - so far it has avoided overt moves to distance itself.
  13. The later Orthodox observance is based on a decree of the Council of Nicaea in 325 A.D., saying Easter should be celebrated after the Hebrew Passover observance to maintain the biblical sequence of events.
  14. The later Orthodox observance is based on a decree of the Council of Nicaea in 325 A.D., saying Easter should be celebrated after the Hebrew Passover observance to maintain the biblical sequence of events.
  15. Labor members have been resistant to Orthodox demands for Sabbath observance and legislation outlawing non-Orthodox conversions.
  16. While the two groups have lobbied to change the holiday back, the people of Waterloo never changed the observance date from May 30.
  17. The changes come in the midst of the 75th anniversary observance of the company, the largest supermarket chain in New England.
  18. Comedian Steve Allen, also a former cancer patient, agreed to address an observance at the Rush Cancer Center in Chicago.
  19. Dealers said activity was slow in Tokyo because of a market holiday in the United States in observance of President's Day.
  20. "The entire law-and-order structure of ours is called upon to guarantee strict observance of the citizens' rights to the inviolability of private life and the home, privacy of correspondence, postal and telegraph messages," he said.
  21. The judge concluded that proper custodial care and observance of prison regulations could have prevented Dixon's death, and that the death by heart attack of Charles Sidney Michael, 31, in 1984 might have been avoided.
  22. Other notables taking part in the observance are Edgar M. Bronfman, president of the World Jewish Congress; the Israeli actor Topol; author Jerzy Kosinski; and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Elie Wiesel, who has written extensively about the Holocaust.
  23. Then, moderation in the observance of Christmas is more a virtue than a fault.
  24. The world's major stock markets were quiet, as Tokyo rose to another record, London fell slightly, and much of the rest of Europe was closed in observance of Whit Monday.
  25. But the observance went by the wayside over the years as high school became a requisite for many jobs.
  26. About 3,000 people from Israel and around the world came to Poland for the observance week, which began Thursday.
  27. U.S. financial markets were closed Monday in observance of President's Day.
  28. He and two other remaing survivors attended an observance at the Washington Monument last month to mark the 44th anniversary of the massacre.
  29. Our entire legal system is designed to guarantee strict observance of the rights of citizens to the inviolability of their private life, home, the secrecy of telephone communication, postal and telegraph correspondence.
  30. Even though it is honored as much in the breach as in the observance, it still serves as the norm.
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