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catena

/kuh-tee-nuh/US // kəˈti nə //UK // (kəˈtiːnə) //

鲶鱼,鲶鱼皮,鲶鱼座

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n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural ca·te·nae [kuh-tee-nee], /kəˈti ni/,

    • : a chain or connected series, especially of extracts from the writings of the fathers of the Christian church.

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Examples

  • Majuri meant Gerardo Catena of the Genovese family and Carlo Gambino of the family of that name.

  • From her husband's voice she had been led to fear something more tangibly unpleasant than a vague catena of prophecies.

  • To him has been given the "Adoration of the Magi" , which some critics attributed to Catena.

  • This picture—ascribed by Morelli and others to Catena (see 234)—is by some connected with the name of Giorgione.

  • It would require more reading than we can boast of to give a catena of writers who have asserted the symbolism of churches.

  • It would be easy to compile a catena of bellicose maxims from our literature, reaching down to the end of the 19th century.