| 词汇 | secular |
| 释义 | secularWord family nounsecularismsecularistsecularitysecularizationadjectivesecularisticsecularverbsecularizeadverbsecularly Religion & thought, Christianity sec·u·lar /ˈsekjələ $ -ər/ ●○○ adjectiveadj 1 RRELIGIONnot connected with or controlled by a church or other religious authority 世俗的，非宗教的；不受教会管辖的 secular education 世俗教育 our modern secular society ► see thesaurus at religious 我们的现代世俗社会 2. RRCa secular priest lives among ordinary people, rather than with other priests in a monastery 〔教士〕在俗的，不住在修道院内的 Examples from the Corpus secular• The government is secular.• Knowledge is no longer sacred but secular.• Harris did all the preliminary research and visited the secular buildings, Pevsner confined himself to churches and medieval domestic buildings.• Without doubt, the latter development represents a secular change in the strategic environment of profound importance.• secular music• The solution might well be an ecumenical link, or a secular organisation where we could bring a spiritual dimension.• Twenty-six women from the church and secular press, radio and television agencies participated.• And, he might have added, a special kind of secular salvation.• Yet the irreligious Jinnah wanted two religious states, while the religious Gandhi would countenance only a united secular state.• The priesthood of central computing has already given way to a secular world of laypeople playing with multiplying microprocessors. (1300-1400) Old French seculer, from Latin saecularis “coming once in an age”, from saeculum “breed, generation” |
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