idolatry
idolatry 英 [aɪˈdɒlətri] 美 [aɪˈdɑlətri]
n. 偶像崇拜；盲目崇拜；邪神崇拜
名词复数:idolatries
- Idolatry means the worship of images as if they were gods. Many religions prohibit idolatry, some even to the extent of forbidding any representational objects in houses of worship.
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- n. 偶像崇拜；盲目崇拜；邪神崇拜
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1. They forget God, they turn to idolatry.
他们忘记了上帝，开始偶像崇拜。
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2. While Paul is describing this behavior as the result of wayward passions, the chief sin is idolatry and separation from the one true God.
虽然保罗描述这种行为为任性激情的结果，主要的罪来自偶像崇拜，将一个人与独一的真神分开。
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3. Indeed, it is curious how instinctively one protects the image of oneself from idolatry or any other handling that could make it ridiculous, or too unlike the original to be believed in any longer.
说来也真奇怪，人们总是本能地保护自己的形象，不让偶像崇拜或是什么别的处理方式使它显得可笑，或者使它变得和原型太不相像以至于人们不相信它。
- idolatry (n.) "worship of idols and images," mid-13c., from Old French idolatrie (12c.), from Vulgar Latin idolatria, contraction of Late Latin idololatria (Tertullian), from Ecclesiastical Greek eidololatria "worship of idols," from eidolon "image" (see idol) + latreia "worship, service" (see -latry).
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