【church音标】 英[tʃɜ:tʃ] 美[tʃɜ:rtʃ]
【单词释义】 church是什么意思：
n.[宗]教堂；[宗]教徒；[宗]教派；[宗]教会；[U][宗]礼拜仪式
adj.教会的；礼拜的
vt.领…到教堂接受宗教仪式
[单词分级] 中考英语词汇
[单词复数] churches [第三人称单数] churches
[单词现在分词] churching
[单词过去式] churched
[单词过去分词] churched
【church形近词/近似词】
perch n.栖息处；栖枝；高处；鲈鱼 vi.栖息；停留；（鸟）飞落，暂歇；坐在…边沿
arch n.拱;拱门
【单词例句】
◇ Everybody looked at her feet; and when she stepped through the chancel door on the church pavement, it seemed to her as if the old figures on the tombs, those portraits of old preachers and preachers' wives, with stiff ruffs, and long black dresses, fixed their eyes on her red shoes.
所有的人都在望着她的那双脚。当她在教堂里走向那个圣诗歌唱班门口的时候，她就觉得好像那些墓石上的雕像，那些戴着硬领和穿着黑长袍的牧师，以及他们的太太的画像都在盯着她的一双红鞋。
---- The Red Shoes
◇ Still, others argue that reverence for the fourth finger began as an early Christian ritual. While crossing themselves in an Orthodox Church, worshipers are expected to join the thumb with the index and middle fingers.
但仍有其他人争论说，对无名指的敬意源自基督教早期的一种仪式。在东正教教堂里画十字时，信徒们须将拇指和食指、中指相连。