abbey

单词辨析:

monastery abbey convent nunnery 【导航词义:修道院,寺院】
monastery n. 修道院,寺院
〔辨析〕

指修道士、僧侣居住、修道之处。

〔例证〕

There are three hundred monks living in the monastery.

这个修道院里住着300个修道士。

abbey n. 大修道院,大寺院
〔辨析〕

指带建筑群的大教堂,通常供修道士或修女居住、修道等。

〔例证〕

Have you ever been to Westminster Abbey?

你去过威斯敏斯特教堂吗?

convent n. 女修道院
〔辨析〕

供修女居住、修道等的建筑或建筑群。

〔例证〕

There is a convent nearby.

附近有一所女修道院。

nunnery n. [旧]女修道院,尼姑庵
〔辨析〕

词义同 convent,但现已少用。

〔例证〕

A nunnery is a place where nuns live together.

女修道院是修女们一起居住的地方。

Jane lives in a nunnery.

简住在一座修道院里。

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She said she missed her life at the abbey too much.

她说她太想念修道院的生活了,她必须离开我们。

Later he worked as a salesman for Abbey life and became one of its youngest branch managers.

随后他做过阿比人寿(bbey life)的推销员,后来成了该公司最年轻的分公司经理。

The British pavilion is an impressive steel and glass construction the size of Westminster Abbey.

这座英式亭阁是令人赞叹的钢和玻璃建筑,大小和威斯敏斯特教堂相当。

Byron inherited the title, a vast house called Newstead Abbey, and estates already mortgaged or in decay.

拜伦继承了爵位,继承了称为“纽斯台德寺院”的大宅邸和已经抵押出去的或已趋于衰败的产业。

Are you starting to think about how Downton Abbey might end?

你有没有开始考虑《唐顿庄园》该结束了?

The abbey was amply provisioned.

寺院中食物应有尽有。