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extreme unction

/ek-streem, ik-streem/US // ˈɛk strim, ɪkˈstrim //

极刑,极端的不敬,极端的不屈服,极端的不平静

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n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    Roman Catholic Church.

    • : anointing of the sick.

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  • Investigators will focus on whether the sudden emergency was so extreme that no degree of pilot skill would have helped.

  • He was part of an extreme, racialized white faction in the Louisiana state house that was clearly dead-set against honoring King.

  • In the most extreme cases, it allows for the extrajudicial killing of black people without consequence.

  • Nor should we ever assume that weather alone, however extreme, should be fatal to a commercial flight.

  • No one likes it when their sandcastle is knocked over, but his reaction is a bit, err, extreme.

  • Practise gliding in the form of inflection, or slide, from one extreme of pitch to another.

  • The controlling center of consciousness is the extreme limit of the nares anteri.

  • As a rule, however, even in the case of extreme varieties, a careful examination of the specimen will enable it to be identified.

  • Nothing but an extreme love of truth could have hindered me from concealing this part of my story.

  • It stands at one extreme of our currency, with a dollar of gold set aside behind each dollar of paper.