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bonaventure

/bon-uh-ven-cher, bon-uh-ven-/US // ˈbɒn əˌvɛn tʃər, ˌbɒn əˈvɛn- //

博纳文德,博纳文特,博纳文图,博纳文泰

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    Nautical.

    • : a mast fitted with a lateen sail or lugsail, situated behind the mizzenmast at or near the stern, used in the 16th and early 17th centuries.

Examples

  • I suspect his final opera omni in a critical German edition will equal in length that of Augustine, Aquinas, and Bonaventure.

  • But at last he said, St. Bonaventure is not the Church, though he is a saint and doctor of it.

  • In 1705 Bonaventure, in a time of scarcity, sent a vessel to Boston to buy provisions, on pretence of exchanging prisoners.

  • During the action which ensued, the Bonaventure blew up, while Van Galen lost a leg from a shot, of which wound he died.

  • Bonaventure, sitting on his knee, asked why he had come, and the ex-governor told him there was war.

  • Zoséphine and Bonaventure sat on a back seat contrived for them in the family calèche.