faith
n. 信心, 信任, 忠实, 保证 [法] 信任, 信仰, 信念
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信仰；信念；信任；忠实
a strong feeling of trust or confidence in someone or something
People have lost faith in the government.
人们已失去了对政府的信心。
释义与例句
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A trust or confidence in the intentions or abilities of a person, object, or ideal from prior empirical evidence.
信心
可数 不可数The faithfulness of Old Faithful gives us faith in it.
I have faith in the goodness of my fellow man.
Have faith in him, buddy.
You need to have faith in yourself, that you can overcome your shortcomings and become a good person.
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A conviction about abstractions, ideas, or beliefs, without empirical evidence, experience, or observation.
信心
信念
信赖
可数 不可数I have faith that my prayers will be answered.
I have faith in the healing power of crystals.
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A religious or spiritual belief system.
信仰
可数 不可数The Christian faith.
We seek justice for the Indo-European Folk Faith; what's wrong in our literature for that?
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An obligation of loyalty or fidelity and the observance of such an obligation.
可数 不可数He acted in good faith to restore broken diplomatic ties after defeating the incumbent.
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Credibility or truth.
可数 废旧 不可数1784-1810, William Mitford, History of Greece the faith of the foregoing […] narrative
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Alternative form of in faith (“really, truly”).
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Ellipsis of by my faith.
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From Middle English faith (also fay), borrowed from Old French fei, feid, from Latin fidem. Displaced native Old English ġelēafa, which was also a word for belief. * Old French had [θ] as a final devoiced allophone of /ð/ from lenited Latin /d/; this eventually fell silent in the 12th century. The -th of the Middle English forms is most straightforwardly accounted for as a direct borrowing of a French [θ]. However, it has also been seen as arising from alteration of a French form with -d under influence of English abstract nouns in the suffix -th (e.g., truth, ruth, health, etc.), or as a recharacterization of a French form like fay, fey, fei with the same suffix. Compare Champenois fiate, fiaite, showing the same preservation of the final consonant.
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