advent

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n. 来到, 来临

发音

US /ˈæd.vɛnt/
US /ˈæd.vɛnt/

词形变化

advents 复数 advents advented adventing advents 三单 adventing 现在分词 advented 过去式 advented 过去分词

教材释义与例句

名词

到来;出现;基督降临;基督降临节

释义与例句

n. B2
  1. 1.

    Arrival; onset; a time when something first comes or appears; the time when it is approaching.

    At the period just preceding the advent of Bartleby, I had two persons as copyists in my employment, and a promising lad as an office-boy.

v.
  1. 1.

    To arrive or begin, especially at the first coming or appearance of something.

    到来

    出现

    来临

    1869 Grove Berry. Ritualism; Part II of An Enquiry. Pub: LONGMANS, GREEN et al. But suppose we depart from the suggestion there made, and, leaving the idea of the status quo from which He advented to Earth, we rise with Solomon (Prov. viii), to some stasis which must be indefinite to us, are we not presumptuous if not even unpractical, Gnostical, and merely scholastic?

    1978 Mohammed Ahmad Qureshi. Marriage and Matrimonial Remedies: A Uniform Civil Code for India Maulana Abdul Kalam Azad in Tarjuman-ul-Quran says that in the seventh century when Islam was advented males had uncontrolled rights.

    2014 Adam Pryor. The god who lives. In the flesh, self and world are always coming-to-be, adventing, in an intimate reciprocity to one another.

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词源

Borrowed from Latin adventus (“arrival, approach”).

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