Puritan

单词Puritan

基本解释

adj.: 清教徒的；清教主义的；禁欲的；苦行的
n.: 禁欲者；苦行者；清教徒（属于 16 和 17 世纪的英国教会）
网络: 清教徒搭乘；虔诚的清教徒；美国保健

权威解释

• 禁欲者；苦行者:

  a person who has very strict moral attitudes and who thinks that pleasure is bad

• 清教徒（属于 16 和 17 世纪的英国教会）:

  a member of a Protestant group of Christians in England in the 16th and 17th centuries who wanted to worship God in a simple way

• 清教徒的；清教主义的；禁欲的；苦行的:

  connected with the Puritans and their beliefs

英汉解释

• 清教徒(似)的,极端拘谨的

• 【宗史】清教徒

• 清教徒似的人;道德上极端拘谨的人

词性分析

• 复数：puritans

例句

• I would put it differently (you won"t be surprised to hear). Maybe, at least on economic matters, I"m a puritan.

  这里我想换一种称谓（听到这个称谓我想你不会吃惊的）-也许，至少在经济事务上，我是一个清教徒。

• Thus, the trials did not result from Puritan religion; they proceeded for a while despite protests from leading pastors.

  因此，这些审判并非肇因于清教徒的宗教；尽管教会领袖们的抗议，审判仍然持续了好一阵子。

• her mother, with delicate scissors, would snip out the genitals from tapestries destined for the puritan American market.

  她的妈妈，用精致的剪刀，从那些准备销往美国清教徒市场的织锦上剪掉生殖器。

• Puritan Sabbath observance began at sundown and no work of any kind, even household chores, was allowed for the next 24-hours.

  清教徒的安息日是从日落开始，不做任何工作，包括家务，长24小时。

• The Illustrated London News presented him replete with a tall, round Puritan hat, his flamboyance signalled by an ostrich feather.

  伦敦画报展现了他的一顶高而圆的清教徒帽，一根鸵鸟翎毛凸显了其雍容华贵。

• But the Puritan fathers of the Massachusetts Bay Colony did not countenance tolerance of opposing religious views.

  但马萨诸塞港湾殖民地的清教徒首领们并不能毫不动容的忍受相反的教义。

• At first glance, this doesn"t seem to make sense, especially to a Western mindset, steeped as it is in the puritan work ethic.

  乍眼一看，这个想法并没有意义，尤其是对西方思想来说，这就像清教徒的运作伦理般的不合理。

• As a stout Puritan, he had made a conscientious study of the Bible and firmly believed in salvation through spiritual struggle.

  作为一个坚定的清教徒，他认真学习《圣经》，并深信人一定能通过精神上的奋斗得到拯救。

• This thesis, with reference to Reformation and British Puritan revolution, expounds the change of concept of usury in early modern England.

  本文试图通过宗教改革并结合英国的清教革命来论述近代早期英国高利贷观念的转变历程。

• Of course, being a Puritan minister as well as a poet, Danforth never ventured far from a spiritual message.

  当然，作为一个清教徒部长以及诗人，丹福思从未远离冒险精神的信息。