shrines是什么意思？

shrines

• n. 圣地，圣坛，神圣场所( shrine的名词复数 )；

例句

• The ancient Greeks dedicated many shrines to Aphrodite. 古代希腊人为女神阿芙罗狄蒂造了许多神庙.
• All three structures dated to the third century and were tentatively identified as shrines. 这3座建筑都建于3世纪,并且初步鉴定为神庙.
• Their palaces and their shrines are tombs. 它们的宫殿和神殿成了墓穴.
• ...the custodian of the holy shrines in Mecca and Medina. 麦加和麦地那圣地的神殿看守人
• To many a refuge fear - stricken men betake themselves , to hills, woods , gardens , trees, and shrines. 诸人恐怖故,去皈依山岳, 或依于森林, 园苑树支提.
• ...shrines and sacred places. 神龛和圣地

柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典释义

• N-COUNT
  圣地;圣祠;神庙;神龛
  A shrine is a place of worship which is associated with a particular holy person or object.
  例句
  ...the holy shrine of Mecca. 麦加圣地
• N-COUNT
  (缅怀逝者的)纪念之地，圣地
  A shrine is a place that people visit and treat with respect because it is connected with a dead person or with dead people that they want to remember.
  例句
  The monument has been turned into a shrine to the dead and the missing. 这座纪念碑已成为人们纪念那些死者和失踪者的神圣之地。