| 词汇 | worldly |
| 释义 | worldlyWord family noun world underworld worldliness worldlingworld-beaterworld musicworld powerworldscaleadjective world worldly ≠ unworldly worldwide worldedworld-classworld-famousworldly-wiseworld-wearyadverb worldwide world·ly /ˈwɜːldli $ ˈwɜːrld-/ adjectiveadj [only before noun] 1. worldly goods/possessions literaryOWN everything you own 财产 Examples from the Corpus worldly goods/possessions• A great number of emigres arrived daily from the mainland, left homeless and often destitute of all worldly possessions.• But he bought no worldly goods.• We generally promise each other all our worldly goods.• Returned that same evening to Brigade Headquarters to collect my rucksack containing all my worldly possessions and, of course, the bagpipes.• They tear our houses down, burn up our worldly possessions, and sometimes even kill us.• He loses all his worldly goods because a law suit is not decided in his favor.• My worldly goods, my total possessions.• Why, of course you must leave all your worldly goods to him. 2 RELIGIONrelating to ordinary life rather than spiritual or religious ideas 尘世的，世俗的 SYN mundane He seemed very calm and far removed from worldly concerns. 他显得非常淡定，完全没有俗世的忧虑。 3. EXPERIENCEDhaving a lot of experience and knowledge about people and life 生活经验丰富的；老成练达的 OPP unworldly —worldliness noun [uncountableU] Examples from the Corpus worldly• For a priest he was surprisingly worldly.• As it usually does to men, war made Stewart much more worldly.• The gospel is not analogous to philosophical wisdom; it is folly to the worldly.• The unmarried man is anxious about the affairs of the Lord; the married man is anxious about worldly affairs.• He learned that there was such a job as trading bonds from his more worldly classmates.• Members of the church tried to isolate themselves from worldly influences.• He wasn't a worldly man in that direction.• Marilyn is a worldly New Yorker in her 60s.• In our headlong pursuit to acquire wealth and worldly pleasures, Christians have become virtually indistinguishable from the rest of the world.• The trouble is that various worldly pressures will make you more, not less, inclined to play it safe.• She was much older and more worldly than I was. |
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