convent

• n. 女修道院

con-, 强调。-ven, 走。走到一起修道的地方，在18世纪以前并没有性别限制。

1. a religious residence especially for nuns

2. a community of people in a religious order (especially nuns) living together

convent

convent: [13] Latin conventus meant ‘assembly’ (it was the past participle of convenire ‘come together’, source of English convenient), but as it passed via Anglo-Norman covent into English it acquired the specialized sense ‘religious community’ (in early use it was applied to communities of either sex, but since the end of the 18th century it has come to be used exclusively for a ‘house of nuns’).

Until the mid- 15th century the Anglo-Norman spelling covent was retained in English (it survives in Covent Garden, which was formerly a vegetable garden belonging to the monks of Westminster Abbey, and may also the the source of coven [16]).
=> convenient, coven, venue

convent (n.)

c. 1200, covent, cuvent, from Anglo-French covent, from Old French convent, from Latin conventus "assembly," used in Medieval Latin for "religious house," originally past participle of convenire "come together" (see convene). Not exclusively feminine until 18c. The form with restored Latin -n- emerged early 15c. The Middle English form remains in London's Covent Garden district (notorious late 18c. for brothels), so called because it had been the garden of a defunct monastery.

COVENT GARDEN ABBESS. A bawd.
COVENT GARDEN AGUE. The venereal diſeaſe.
["Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue," 1796]

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A convent is a contradiction. Its object , salvation; its means thereto, sacrifice.

修院是一种矛盾, 其目的是为了幸福, 其方式是牺牲.

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The orphan had been reared in a convent by some good sisters.

这个孤儿在一所修道院里被几个好心的修女带大.

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The Spaniard a buxom widow must be either married, buried, or shut up in a convent.

按西班牙人的主张,丰乳肥臀的寡妇应该使之再婚, 或予以埋葬, 不然就关进女修道院里去.

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You were in a convent. That's where you were.

你原来象是在一所真正的修道院里. 你就是从那儿来的.

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She entered a convent.

她当了修女.

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She became a nun at the convent when she was only 16 years old.

她十六岁时就在修道院当了一名修女.

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It enjoys exceptional advantages in geographic and economic conditions convent transportation by water and land.

紧靠苏州、无锡、常州和上海,地理、经济条件得天独厚,水陆交通便利.

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A buxom widow must be either married , buried or shut up in a convent.

寡妇门前是非多.

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When I wished to retire into a convent, you remember how angry you were with me?

您还记得吗,当我想遁世入修道院的时候, 您当时是多么得生我的气?

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She decided to renounce the world and enter a convent.

她决定弃绝尘世去当修女.

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The method is convent, fast and has applied to determination of acetic acid in ambient air.

方法操作简便 、 快逮,适用于环境空气中微量乙酸的监测.

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Vanessa a lovely but still completely innocent student at a convent school.

云妮莎是个纯情少女,就读于一所修女学校.

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Living in the convent narrowed her views.

修道院生活使她的视野变窄.

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She entered a convent at the age of 16.

她十六岁时进了修道院.

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You are a woman, eighteen years of age , and two out of a convent.

你是个二九年华的女人, 从修道院出来才两年.

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She aslay teacher at the convent school.

她在“修道院”的学校当非神职的教师.

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Now the local archbishop has intervened and asked the Vatican for permission to close the convent.

如今当地总主教已介入此事,并请求梵蒂冈准许关闭该修女院.

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She bunked from the convent last term.

她上学期从女修道院逃跑了.

辞典例句

And you didn't go to an ashram or enter a convent or monastery.

你能有这样的收获,而且还不用去寺庙,或加入修道院.

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Following her conversion to Christianity, she joined a convent.

在她转信基督教后, 她加入了一个女修道会.

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She was bunked from the convent last term.

她上个学期从女修道院逃跑了.

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She is being packed off to a convent.

她准备去当修女.

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She could not go, she said a retreat that week in her convent.

她说自己不能去, 那一周修道会要静修.

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Arriving at the convent, the nun went on her way.

到达修女会, 修女继续自己的路.

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I'm from the convent. I'm the new governess, Captain.

我从修道院来, 是新来的家庭教师, 上校.

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She serves as a lay teacher at the convent school.

她在修道院的学校当非神职的教师.

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Eve was the girl who lived in the convent and knew all the nuns'secrets.

伊夫是住在修道会的女孩,她知道所有那些修女的秘密.

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She died in misery in a convent.

她悲惨地在修道院死去.

《现代英汉综合大词典》

I've tried to pass off my accent as a convent school accent.

我努力将口音装成女修会学校的口音。

柯林斯例句

She attended a convent school and went to Mass each day.

她上的是教会学校，每天都去做弥撒。

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