covenant

• n. 契约，盟约；圣约；盖印合同
• vi. 订立盟约、契约
• vt. 立约承诺

co-, 强调。-ven, 来，词源同venue,convene(开会)。即召集开会后形成的协议，条约。

1. a signed written agreement between two or more parties (nations) to perform some action

2. (Bible) an agreement between God and his people in which God makes certain promises and requires certain behavior from them in return

covenant

covenant: [13] The notion of ‘agreement’ in covenant comes originally from a literal ‘coming together’. It was borrowed from Old French covenant, a noun use of the present participle of the verb covenir ‘agree’, which was descended from Latin convenire ‘come together’ (source also of English convene, convenient, convention, convent, and coven). (Modern French has restored the n, giving convenir.)
=> convenient, convent, convention, coven, venue

covenant (n.)

c. 1300, from Old French covenant "agreement," originally present participle of covenir "agree, meet," from Latin convenire "come together" (see convene). Applied in Scripture to God's arrangements with man as a translation of Latin testamentum, Greek diatheke, both rendering Hebrew berith (though testament also is used for the same word in different places).

covenant (v.)

c. 1300, from covenant (n.). Related: Covenanted; covenanting. Covenanter (1638) was used especially in reference to Scottish Presbyterians who signed the Solemn League and Covenant (1643) for the defense and furtherance of their cause.

God's covenant with Abraham

上帝与亚伯拉罕的立约

牛津词典

a covenant to a charity

向慈善机构定期捐款的契约

牛津词典

All profits are covenanted to medical charities.

已立约把所有收益捐给医疗慈善机构。

牛津词典

...the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.

《公民权利和政治权利国际公约》

柯林斯高阶英语词典

If you make regular gifts through a covenant we can reclaim the income tax which you have already paid on this money.

如果你签订契约定期捐赠，那么我们可以要求返还你这笔钱上交的所得税。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

But they like men have transgressed the covenant : there have they dealt treacherously against me.

他们却如亚当背约,在境内向我行事诡诈.

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The covenant of grace is principally between God and the elect.

恩典之约主要是神和被拣选者之间的关系.

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The Lord confides in those who fear him; he makes his covenant known to them.

14耶和华与敬畏他的人亲密; 他必将自己的约指示他们.

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Benaiah also and Jahaziel the priests with trumpets continually before the ark the covenant of God.

祭司比拿雅和雅哈悉常在神的约柜前吹号.

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There are two Covenant destroyers at the elevator's terminus near Station Wayward Rest.

在电梯终点随意休息空间站附近有两艘圣约人的驱逐舰.

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Marriage is a covenant . It is a commitment, a vow before God, to love until death.

婚姻是一个盟约. 是在神面前, 证人面前立志,立约, 终生爱对方.

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The fireballs cooled toand a single sleek silhouette emerged: one of the Covenant destroyers had survived.

火球冷却成了橘红色,一个侧影出现了: 一艘圣约人驱逐舰幸存了下来.

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My mercy will I keep for him for evermore, and my covenant stand fast with him.

28我要为他存留我的慈爱, 直到永远;我与他立的约必要坚定.

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The covenant God made with man in the garden is a covenant of works.

上帝与人在伊甸园所立的约是个工作之约.

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Marriage is the covenant between two people, and the decision remain together in wedded matrimony.

婚姻是两个人之间的契约, 是双方同意在共同缔结的婚姻生活中相依相伴的决定.

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Unless there Covenant forces in pressure suits, this ship was a ghost ship now.

除非圣约人的军队穿着压力服, 否则这艘飞船现在就是幽灵船了.

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Lash and Lieutenant Commander Waters stared at the view screens, watching the Covenant fleet destroy itself.

莱什和沃特斯少校盯着显示屏, 看着圣约人舰队自相残杀.

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We can't lose day because every day the economic picture is covenant ( worsening ), here the globe.

我们不可以错过任何一天因为每一天我们这里以及全世界的经济 版图 都在变得越来越糟.

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It is the sign of a great covenant between Man and God.

它是人与神的伟大契约的标志.

辞典例句

In Him the two parts of the covenant find their complete fulfillment.

(来八:6)在他身上,约的两部分都完全成就了.

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The money was given to us by deed of covenant.

这笔钱是根据契约书付给我们的.

《简明英汉词典》

It is a covenant, not a contract.

这是一个圣洁盟约, 并非是一份互利的合同.

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To such as keep his covenant, and to those that remember his commandments to do them.

就是那些遵守他的约, 记念他的训词而遵行的人.

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We a Covenant armada over our heads, and an army about to swarm through this building.

我们头上有圣约人的舰队, 一只军队正试图涌进这个建筑.

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The State is not a party to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.

该国不是《公民权利和政治权利国际公约》缔约国.

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You have renounced the covenant with servant and have defiled his crown in the dust.

你厌恶了与仆人所立的约,将他的冠冕践踏于地.

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One hit, spattering uselessly on Covenant shields.

一发击中, 在圣约人的护盾上无效的喷溅着.

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The Covenant and the Grid : Toward New Suburban Tracts for America . 1993.

契约与格子状: 美国朝向新郊区住宅土地开发〉,1993.

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Our covenant with ourselves did not stop there.

我们与自己订的盟约还不止这些.

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Then he gave Abraham the covenant of circumcision.

8神又赐他割礼的约.

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