piety是什么意思？

piety

英[ˈpaɪəti] 美[ˈpaɪɪti]

• n. 虔诚，虔敬；

复数：pieties;

例句

• In a traditional Chinese family filial piety is rigidly observed. 在传统的中国家庭里，人们恪守孝道。
• Genuine emotion peeps through, only to be squeezed back by some orthodox piety. 真实的感情偶尔出现, 但跟着便被正统的虔诚挤跑了.
• She was eminent for her piety. 她以虔诚闻名.
• Experience makes us see an enormous difference between piety and goodness. 经验使我们看到虔诚与善意之间有着巨大的区别.
• They were drawn to the church not by piety but by curiosity. 他们去教堂不是出于虔诚而是出于好奇.
• Eucharistic Devotion and New Traditions of Affective Piety. 圣体捐献和情感虔诚的新传统.
• Warm, vital piety is one of the distinguishing marks of the catechism. 热情而有活力的敬虔是这个教理问答独特的标记之一.
• The Chinese Augustinian teach, speaking the amenability filial piety. 中国人信奉儒教, 讲顺从孝顺.

英语六级真题

L) The college admission essay contains the grandest American themes―status anxiety, parental piety (孝顺), intellectual standards—and so it is only a matter of time before it becomes infected by the country's culture of excessive concern with self-esteem.
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柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典释义

• N-UNCOUNT
  虔诚；虔敬
  Piety is strong religious belief, or behaviour that is religious or morally correct.

英汉词典释义

• n.
  虔诚, 虔敬
  They were drawn to the church not by piety but by curiosity. 他们去教堂不是出于虔诚而是出于好奇。

英英词典释义

• Noun
  1. righteousness by virtue of being pious