單詞
priestcraft
英 ['pri?s(t)krɑ?ft]
美['pristkr?ft]
基本信息
- n. 神職者的謀略；祭司的本領
英文詞源
- priestcraft (n.)
- late 15c., "business of being a priest," from priest + craft (n.). After rise of Protestantism and the Enlightenment, it acquired a pejorative sense of "arts and devices of ambitious priests for attaining and holding temporal power and social control" (1680s).
雙語例句
- 1. A fine girl is worth all the priestcraft in the creation.
- 一個美女子,比世界上什么宗教把戲都好.
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