litany
litany 英 [ˈlɪtəni] 美 [ˈlɪtni]
n. 冗长而枯燥的陈述；连祷
名词复数:litanies
- If you've got a whole slew of complaints to get off your chest or requests to make, you've got yourself a litany — a long, drawn-out list.
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- n. 冗长而枯燥的陈述；连祷
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1. He said that to me at a time when I was facing a litany of charges of being a spy in Istanbul.
他对我说这番话的时候，刚好是我在伊斯坦布尔遭遇没完没了间谍指控的时候。
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2. Above me, above them, I could make out a low wave of moaning, like the murmur of a congregation at litany in church.
在他们之上，在我之上，我可以听到一声低吟，好像是教堂集会时诵经的声音。
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3. “I’m trying to bring some realism to this conversation, ” he told me, before going through a depressing litany of examples of how the Internet is being used to “subvert democracy”.
在进入令人压抑的关于互联网如何被用于颠覆民主的冗长叙述之前他告诉我，“我试着去带给这场谈话一些现实主义内容”。
- litany (n.) c. 1200, "solemn prayer of supplication," from Old French letanie (13c., Modern French litanie) and directly from Medieval Latin letania, Late Latin litania (source also of Spanish letania, Italian litania), from Greek litaneia "prayer, an entreating," from lite "prayer, supplication, entreaty," a word of unknown origin. From the notion of monotonous enumeration of petitions in Christian prayer services came the generalized sense of "repeated series" (early 19c.), which originated in French.
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