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litany

/lit-n-ee/US // ˈlɪt n i //UK // (ˈlɪtənɪ) //

一连串,连环画,连祷词,一连串事件

Related Words

recitation背诵,朗诵,诵读,朗诵会repetition重复,重复性,重复的,重复性的catalogue目录,产品目录,图录account帐户,账户,账目,帐号list列表,列表中,榜单,列表中的enumeration枚举,枚举法,列举,术语tale故事,岈,岈语supplication祈求,祈祷,祈愿,祈福refrain克制,克制一下,克制住,反复强调prayer祈祷者,祈祷,祷告,祷告者invocation援引,援用,援救,援款petition请愿书,呈请书,请愿,请示

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural lit·a·nies.

    • : a ceremonial or liturgical form of prayer consisting of a series of invocations or supplications with responses that are the same for a number in succession.
    • : the Litany, the supplication in this form in the Book of Common Prayer.
    • : a recitation or recital that resembles a litany.
    • : a prolonged or tedious account: We heard the whole litany of their complaints.

Synonyms & Antonyms

nounrecital of items, often part of religious services
Synonyms
catalogue目录,产品目录,图录recitation背诵,朗诵,诵读,朗诵会repetition重复,重复性,重复的,重复性的account帐户,账户,账目,帐号enumeration枚举,枚举法,列举,术语invocation援引,援用,援救,援款list列表,列表中,榜单,列表中的petition请愿书,呈请书,请愿,请示prayer祈祷者,祈祷,祷告,祷告者refrain克制,克制一下,克制住,反复强调supplication祈求,祈祷,祈愿,祈福tale故事,岈,岈语

Examples

  • The audit from the safety commission, an independent agency Congress created two years ago to oversee Metrorail safety after a litany of problems, had wide-ranging effects.

  • Between the Q4 rush, the abbreviated weeks due to bank holidays, and having to juggle a litany of “real world” holiday prep, the holidays for people like you and me often leave us feeling like we have more work than there are hours in the day.

  • I put it through a litany of tests on resource-hungry apps with advanced graphics and lots of on-screen action, and it didn’t flinch.

  • “Our strength is in solidarity,” they say in the video, which also has English subtitles, and which features a litany of tech industry workers, many of whom say that state harassment could lead to the destruction of the tech industry in Belarus.

  • The Sydney-based outfit started in 1975 and quickly accrued a litany of world firsts—first commercial cycling trips in China, first commercial descent of Tasmania’s Franklin River, first group treks in Mongolia.

  • But does anyone think this litany of tasks is an appropriate use of physician time?

  • There has since been a shocking litany of thousands of cases of physical and sexual abuse of children.

  • Well, despite the litany of issues at hand, this is an absolute win-win for Jackson.

  • At which point you might recite the now-standard litany of “dark” Disney secrets.

  • Fink ran through a litany of concerns: China, Japan, “the nonsense in Washington,” the Federal Reserve.

  • If you can stand a few hours of talk from an old smacksman you may hear a sombre litany of horror.

  • The invocation, "Queen conceived without the stain of original sin," was added to the Litany of Loreto.

  • "Happen he gi' him both, and throwed in th' Litany," shouted another.

  • And she whispered back: "They will pray for those that travel by water in the Litany."

  • He then repeated a portion of the Litany of the Episcopal church, with apparent fervor.

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