mystery
n. 秘密, 神秘, 奥秘
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教材释义与例句
秘密，谜；神秘，神秘的事物；推理小说，推理剧；常作 mysteries 秘技，秘诀
释义与例句
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1.
Something secret or unexplainable; an unknown.
神秘
谜
谜团
奥秘
神奇
可数 不可数The truth behind the events remains a mystery.
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Someone or something with an obscure or puzzling nature.
怪人
怪事
可数 不可数That man is a mystery.
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An account, story, book, film, or play, often with the theme of crime or murder, with a surprise ending that explains all the strange events that have occurred.
悬疑小说
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A mystery play.
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A secret or mystical meaning.
可数 废旧 不可数[…] and, not knowing the meaning or misterie of her pollicie, forgat no termes of reproche or rigorous rebuke against his chast doughter.
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A religious truth not understandable by the application of human reason alone (without divine aid).
可数 不可数1744 (first printed), Jonathan Swift, A Sermon on the Trinity If God should please to reveal unto us this great mystery of the Trinity, or some other mysteries in our holy religion, we should not be able to understand them, unless he would bestow on us some new faculties of the mind.
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A sacrament.
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A secret religious celebration, admission to which was usually through initiation.
可数 不可数the Eleusinian mysteries
the Mysteries of Mithras
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A particular event or series of events in the life of Christ.
可数 不可数 宗教The second decade of the Rosary concerns the Sorrowful mysteries, such as the crucifixion and the crowning with thorns.
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A craft, art or trade; specifically a guild of craftsmen.
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From Middle English mysterie, from Anglo-Norman misterie (Old French mistere), from Latin mysterium, from Ancient Greek μυστήριον (mustḗrion, “a mystery, a secret, a secret rite”), from μύστης (mústēs, “initiated one”), from μυέω (muéō, “to initiate”), from μύω (múō, “to shut”). Displaced native Old English ġerȳne.
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