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nunnery

/nuhn-uh-ree/US // ˈnʌn ə ri //UK // (ˈnʌnərɪ) //

尼姑庵,庵堂,姑姑庵,修道院

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n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural nun·ner·ies.

    • : a building or group of buildings for nuns; convent.

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Examples

  • Yes, the capricious, man-eating screen siren has, quite literally, gotten thee to a nunnery.

  • I shall get the place full of a jolly lot of girls, and Wendover Park won't be no mouldy church, nor no bloomin' nunnery.

  • Another cause of its unfavourable reception seems to have been, its second title of "Love in a Nunnery."

  • Oh, restore to me my maiden quietude, in my nunnery of Subiaco—when the night was so calm in my cell.

  • As its unearthly glow irradiated the world around him, reversing its light and shade, the visions of the nunnery recurred.

  • The child was then to be conveyed to the nunnery, her husband being deluded into the belief that she had miscarried.