reverent
reverent 英 ['rev(ə)r(ə)nt] 美 ['rɛvərənt]
adj. 虔诚的；恭敬的；尊敬的
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- adj. 虔诚的；恭敬的；尊敬的
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1. She set about dedicating herself and her sizable inheritance to returning Mother's Day to its reverent roots.
她开始奉献她自己和她绝大部分的遗产去使母亲节回到它最虔诚的根基上去。
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2. 'How were they not going to emrace a theory about how to live with loss and pain?' Mr. Rolon asked a reverent bookstore audience.
洛伦问一群虔诚的书店听众，一个关于如何带着伤痛生活的理由怎么不会得到人们的信奉？
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3. To some, this suggests that the church might well need to take a position of reverent agnosticism regarding some doctrines that it had previously proclaimed with excessive conviction.
也有些人建议，依据一些早先过分肯定的教义，教会可能最好采取一种虔诚的不可知论立场。
- reverent (adj.) late 14c., "reverend;" late 15c., "characterized by reverence, deeply respectful," from Old French reverent and directly from Latin reverentem (nominative reverens), present participle of revereri (see reverence). The sense of "reverend" was common 14c. through 17c. Related: Reverently.
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