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abbot

/ab-uht/US // ˈæb ət //UK // (ˈæbət) //

住持,大修道院院长,修道士,院长

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n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a man who is the head or superior, usually elected, of a monastery.

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Examples

  • A law like the one Abbot just signed would not be allowed to go into effect, instead drawing time and resources from a conservative legal apparatus that has fought mostly losing battles for the last 40 years.

  • Abbot reportedly raised MH17 over dinner and the two are planning to meet again.

  • This jibe comes after ads in which Davis attacked the paralyzed Abbot for not caring about other wheelchair-bound Texans.

  • The government has approved plans for an expanded coal port at Abbot Point.

  • One of those powerful stories is of Christmas Abbot, Ray Biley, and Chazz Rudolph.

  • Abbot was a strange friend, but he proved to be very useful.

  • Abbot was nothing of a courtier, and, indeed, no very pleasant-natured man.

  • The High Church party were then in the ascendant, and Abbot, from various causes, declined from favour.

  • Garnache took the Abbot by the sleeve of his rough habit and drew him gently towards the window.

  • Unbidden, the Abbot had gone forward through the great doorway and down the gallery that led to the hall of Condillac.

  • But the Abbot stepped suddenly to her side and caught her wrist in his thin, transparent hand.