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noviciate

/noh-vish-ee-it, -eyt/US // noʊˈvɪʃ i ɪt, -ˌeɪt //UK // (nəʊˈvɪʃɪɪt, -ˌeɪt) //

初学,新手,初学者,新手上路

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n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the state or period of being a novice of a religious order or congregation.
    • : the quarters occupied by religious novices during probation.
    • : the state or period of being a beginner in anything.
    • : a novice.

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Examples

  • A petition to be made a nun without having to go through the novitiate in the white veil was placed before me, and I signed it.

  • He spent some months in Prato with his friend Fra Diamante, who had been his companion in novitiate.

  • It was a position of great trust, and never before in the history of the monastery had it been given to a mere novitiate.

  • I never dared ask myself what the outcome of it all would be; I wanted to finish my novitiate first.

  • He was called another Confucius, and was even empowered by the authorities to establish a novitiate at Pekin.