consecrated

基本解釋

This battlefield is consecrated to the memory of soldiers who died here.
這個戰(zhàn)場被視為圣地以紀念死于此處的戰(zhàn)士。
Those books, both prose and verse, were consecrated to me by other associations; and I hate to have them debased and profaned in his mouth!
這些書，包括散文和詩，都由于一些別的聯(lián)想，因此對于我是神圣不可侵犯的；我極不愿意這些書在他的口里被敗壞褻瀆！
Until the second phase of his life, he was a wrapt, consecrated solitary, pursuing his studies by intense introspection, with a mental endurance perhaps never equalled.
在他生命的第二階段之前，他一直保持神圣的孤獨，通過強烈的內(nèi)省，以一種可能永無匹敵的精神毅力堅持他的研究。

The brave men,living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract.
And the election was entirely God's initiative and is no cause for Israel to boast. So Deuteronomy 7, verses 6-8 read: For you are a people consecrated to the Lord your God: of all the peoples on earth the Lord your God chose you to be His treasured people.
而選擇也完全是上帝自愿的,不該是以色列吹噓的原因，《申命記》第7章6-8節(jié)：,因為你歸耶和華你身為圣潔的民：,從地上的萬民中揀選你,耶和華選你作自己的子民。
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The brave men,living and dead,who struggled here,have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract.

That would violate many of the rules that other consecrated women were forced to live under.
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When a building, place, or object is consecrated, it is officially declared to be holy. When a person is consecrated, they are officially declared to be a bishop.