epiphany 的定义
plural e·piph·a·nies.
- a Christian festival, observed on January 6, commemorating the manifestation of Christ to the gentiles in the persons of the Magi; Twelfth-day.
- an appearance or manifestation, especially of a deity.
- a sudden, intuitive perception of or insight into the reality or essential meaning of something, usually initiated by some simple, homely, or commonplace occurrence or experience.
- a literary work or section of a work presenting, usually symbolically, such a moment of revelation and insight.
epiphany 近义词
revelation
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epiphany 的反义词 2 个
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- She had an epiphany that day, deciding at 12 that her calling was not just to become No.
- No flashes of insight, no grand epiphanies, just slow and steady deliberation over subtle details.
- More often than not, I went out again after logging my daily practice hour because I’d had some epiphany I wanted to explore.
- Every time I’ve had an epiphany I would see the number on a bus, or on the clock— just very interesting places.
- He is a former oil and gas executive who nowadays leads a small nonprofit — the result of a personal epiphany — and is tackling global warming one well at a time.
- Richard Kurin was a 19-year-old anthropology student in India when he experienced his material culture epiphany.
- Zaks experienced an epiphany of sorts a couple years ago, when he was looking through a book of Tony Walton illustrations.
- While watching The Ten Commandments on TV with their children for the umpteenth time, Burnett and Downey had an epiphany.
- This was an epiphany, this was imprinted on you, you could do anything now.
- The teenager went to rehab, and then went right back to using—until he had an epiphany.
- Their escape was made at midnight on the eve of Epiphany, 1649, all the court following in great disorder.
- Neophytes should therefore be baptized at Easter and Pentecost alone, never at Epiphany.
- So careful is the poet to prepare both sides—the divine epiphany, and the mortal who is to behold it.
- He thought the lessons of the Nativity and Epiphany came as a very wholesome corrective to these tendencies.
- There is nothing of him now in Florence, save a few drawings in the Uffizi and an unfinished picture of the Epiphany.