annunciation

/uh-nuhn-see-ey-shuhn/US // əˌnʌn siˈeɪ ʃən //UK // (əˌnʌnsɪˈeɪʃən) //

告知书,报喜,报信,告别仪式

Definitions

n.名词 noun

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- : the announcement by the angel Gabriel to the Virgin Mary of her conception of Christ.
- : a representation of this in art.
- : Also called Lady Day. the church festival on March 25 in memory of this.
- : an act or instance of announcing; proclamation: the annunciation of a new foreign policy.

nounannouncement

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Indeed, the Annunciation is retold in the Holy Book of Islam not once, but twice.
A brief pause before the final, sacred annunciation: "My darling, the Sistine chapel is fashion."
It is the flower specially dedicated to the Virgin Mary, and which is so familiar to us in the old paintings of the Annunciation.
The annunciation of this doctrine was greeted by the critic of the "Edinburgh Review" with the insolent: "This will never do."
Another silence succeeded this annunciation of the character Duncan had assumed.
What would that Madonna of the Annunciation be, without the little shrine into which she shrinks back?
At the appointed hour the town-crier proclaimed the meeting, and the church-bells of the city also gave the annunciation.