nunnery

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。

相关例句:

Ophelia, you are one of these dirty ones, too. Go to a nunnery. Fiona came out last season.

欧菲莉亚,你也是其中之一。去女修道院,菲奥纳上一季初次参加社交活动。

They've shipped me off to this nunnery.

他们把我送到了寄宿女校来。

An elderly nomad, wrapped in a cow's hide, appears and points, laughing, to the nunnery high above us.

一位裹着牛皮的年长牧民现出身来,并指着高处的尼姑庵大笑。

I'd rather avoid the attention of turning a nunnery into a slaughterhouse.

我希望避免使修道院变成屠宰场。

So she ran away to join a nunnery, where she met Guru Rinpoche and became his Indian consort.

因此她逃离皇宫而进入尼院,并于该处遇见莲师且成为其在印度的佛母。

The ordinary routine of life in a nunnery has always corresponded approximately with that of a monastery.

普通的日常的生活在一个尼姑庵一直相当于大约与一个修道院。