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enlightenment

/en-lahyt-n-muhnt/US // ɛnˈlaɪt n mənt //UK // (ɪnˈlaɪtənmənt) //

启蒙,启迪,启蒙教育,悟性

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n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the act of enlightening.
    • : the state of being enlightened: to live in spiritual enlightenment.
    • : Buddhism, Hinduism. prajna.
    • : the Enlightenment, a philosophical movement of the 18th century, characterized by belief in the power of human reason and by innovations in political, religious, and educational doctrine.

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Examples

  • It’s also a shift that’s happening all over the tech landscape as companies — perhaps goaded by newfound enlightenment or, more likely, the prospect of government intervention — are being more assertive about what happens on their platforms.

  • Similarly, early Americans had faith that a newly expanded print media would spread enlightenment.

  • His eventual enlightenment, however, is said to have involved recognition that all things are temporary, ever-changing, and impermanent.

  • A pandemic lockdown is not a sabbatical to finish your novel, or a monastic retreat to find enlightenment, or a visit to the spa so you can retool your diet and get into shape.

  • I nodded and murmured something about enlightenment principles and empiricism.

  • In my search for answers about who I was, I pored over religious texts in search of enlightenment.

  • Two and a half millennia ago, Siddhartha Gautama sought enlightenment.

  • Everything in life, from governance to harvest to warfare, was suffused with sacred meaning until the advent of the Enlightenment.

  • I later read that to be fit for enlightenment, man must be fearless.

  • When he emerged from the Zen monastery on Mount Baldy, his enlightenment was followed with an all too worldly disaster.

  • Further enlightenment (as with men) comes through grace as soon as they become beati through turning to good.

  • He did talk the matter over with Deacon Pettybone, but got little enlightenment for his pains.

  • Flashes of recollection, enlightenment, and dismay succeeded one another in Roly's face.

  • The less enlightenment and reason men possess, the more zeal they exhibit for their religion.

  • We naturally look to our colleges for the evidences of learning, of enlightenment and culture.