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epiphany

/ih-pif-uh-nee/US // ɪˈpɪf ə ni //UK // (ɪˈpɪfənɪ) //

顿悟,启示录,悟性,悟道

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    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.

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Examples

  • 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.