votive在英语中代表‘还愿的、还愿的’的意思,其次还有‘表示愿心的’的意思,发音是[v’outiv],votive在英语中经常以名词形式出现,在《学生实用英汉双解大词典》中,共找到84个与votive相关的同义词和例句。
1.还愿的
例句:This is an important votive figure, a fertility goddess dating approximately 15,000 to 10,000 B.C.
翻译:这是座很有价值的神像 土地富饶之神,据测定其完成的年代 大概在公元前一万五千年到公元前一万年。
来源:英语ABC实用语法词典
2.还愿的
例句:- i could go with the tall tapered arrangement with, uh, tulips and freesias and orchids, or i could go with a votive of roses and lilies, i don’t know.
翻译:比如说用郁金香,苍兰跟兰花 或者是那些 玫瑰或者百合 我也不知道。
来源:英英汉-英英汉词典
3.表示愿心的
例句:in fact, she’d laugh her head off if she could see this little votive group… gathered under her portrait, drinking her vintage wine… growing mawkish over her memory.
翻译:事实上,如果她看到这群谢恩的人 聚集在她的肖像下,喝着她的佳酿 自作多情地回忆她,她会笑得前仰后合。
来源:牛津英汉双解词典
4.奉献的、表示愿心的
例句:Mr. Yashima came here to buy a votive picture (good wish)
翻译:八岛在这里买了许愿牌。
来源:英语词汇学习小词典
votive一般作为名词使用,如在votive candle([网络] 许愿蜡烛)、votive candles([网络] 神圣蜡烛;许愿烛)、votive mass([教](为婚丧等所做的)许愿弥撒)等常见短语中出现较多。
1. in fact, she’d laugh her head off if she could see this little votive group… gathered under her portrait, drinking her vintage wine… growing mawkish over her memory.
翻译:事实上,如果她看到这群谢恩的人 聚集在她的肖像下,喝着她的佳酿 自作多情地回忆她,她会笑得前仰后合。
2. Mr. Yashima came here to buy a votive picture (good wish)
翻译:八岛在这里买了许愿牌。
3. The only verdict is vengeance, a vendetta held as a votive not in vain, for the value and veracity of such shall one day vindicate the vigilant and the virtuous.
翻译:对他们裁决只有复仇… …这象征希望的血海深仇不会是徒然的 因为它的价值和正确性… …终有一天会证明 那些高尚者和警醒者是对的。