incarnation
incarnation 英 [ˌɪnkɑ:ˈneɪʃn] 美 [ˌɪnkɑrˈneɪʃn]
n. 化身；道成肉身；典型
名词复数:incarnations
- Incarnation is the embodiment of a god on earth. Or — when it comes to reincarnation: if you are a garbage collector in this life, you might get to be royalty in your next incarnation.
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- n. 化身；道成肉身；典型
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1. In this incarnation of the fairy tale, the dwarves live inside a tree.
在这部典型的童话故事中，小矮人住在树里面。
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2. The great mystery of the incarnation is that God became human in Jesus so that all human flesh could be clothed with divine life.
耶稣道成肉身的最大奥秘在于天主藉着耶稣而成为人，使得人类的人性的肉身得以穿上神性的生命。
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3. The Christian incarnation, he says, has been described as “the font of Western realism.
他表示，基督的化身一直以来被描述为“西方现实主义的源泉”。
- incarnation (n.) c. 1300, "embodiment of God in the person of Christ," from Old French incarnacion "the Incarnation" (12c.), from Late Latin incarnationem (nominative incarnatio), "act of being made flesh" (used by Church writers especially in reference to God in Christ; source also of Spanish encarnacion, Italian incarnazione), noun of action from past participle stem of Late Latin incarnari "be made flesh," from in- "in" (from PIE root *en "in") + caro (genitive carnis) "flesh" (originally "a piece of flesh," from PIE root *sker- (1) "to cut"). Glossed in Old English as inflæscnes, inlichomung. As "person or thing that is the embodiment" (of some quality, deity, etc.) from 1742.
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