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lead to altar

/awl-ter/US // ˈɔl tər //UK // (ˈɔːltə) //

引导至祭坛,引到坛子里去,引到坛子上,引到坛子里

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : an elevated place or structure, as a mound or platform at which religious rites are performed or on which sacrifices are offered to gods, ancestors, etc.
    • : Ecclesiastical. communion table.
    • : Altar, Astronomy. the constellation Ara.
    • : a ledge for supporting the feet of shorings.

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Examples

  • So as we cook, our kitchens can become temples and our pantries can transform into altars, which opens our space for the feelings, emotions, memories and questions that arise.

  • Yet at the same time, her refusal to sacrifice her personal life at the altar of her career flouts many of the old “rules” for getting to the top.

  • Under normal circumstances, my family’s Chuseok celebrations are mostly focused on the food and gathering aspects — but still, we’re hit with the realization that those we love could one day be a name before an altar of food we set.

  • It also held a large, flat stone like an altar, with traces of human and animal blood.

  • As you drink your coffee you guide your mind back to the opera, the cross-dressing Cain and Abel, the upside-down altar.

  • In a show about single women, Sex and The City was always in a rush to get to the altar—and with a man there waiting.

  • They might be surprised how much money they would save on altar bread.

  • When Jack was lying on the altar with the stones, that was really hard for me because I got a bit giggly.

  • He embraces her and, in a fit of demented anger and frustration, sexually assaults her against the altar of their dead son.

  • The Kingslayer shoves her against the altar of their dead son, and then to the ground beside it.

  • Ramona had covered the box with white cloth, and the lace altar-cloth thrown over it fell in folds to the floor.

  • After a few seconds Ramona rose, went into the house, brought out the white altar-cloth, and laid it over the mutilated face.

  • And one of the seraphims flew to me, and in his hand was a live coal, which he had taken with the tongs off the altar.

  • In return, each of the priests placed an image of Buddha on a tree-root, turning it into an altar.

  • Inside its darkened walls a single monk chanted his monotonous prayer before an altar.