Ritual

It is a familiar, and quintessentially Japanese ritual. 它是個熟悉而又典型的日式儀式。

Sunday lunch with the in-laws has become something of a ritual. 星期天，和姻親們共進午餐已經成了例行的公事。

Their mating ritual is just so impersonal. 它們的求偶儀式是如此的沒有人情味。

Why did theater develop, and why was it valued after it ceased to fulfill the function of ritual? 為什麼戲劇會發展，以及為什麼在戲劇完全脱離宗教儀式以後還有這麼大的價值？

Traditional marriage has evolved from a near-universal ritual to a luxury for the educated and affluent. 傳統婚姻已經從一種近乎普遍的儀式演變為受過良好教育和富裕階層的奢侈品。

Now many specialists believe that cave paintings were not part of a ritual to bring good luck to hunters. 現在許多專家認為，洞穴壁畫並不是給獵人帶來好運的儀式的一部分。

Parents clap and shriek with laughter while children look on with bemused grins as the daily ritual is performed. 家長們在一旁鼓掌、尖叫，孩子們則帶着困惑的笑容看着每天的儀式。

You've got to get rid of the ritual impurity, so there'll have to be some ritual procedure that purges the impurity. 你必須擺脱不純潔的儀式，所以必須有一些手段來淨化不純潔。

School districts across the country, most recently Los Angeles Unified, are revising their thinking on this educational ritual. 全國各地的學區正在修正他們對這種教育儀式的看法，最近的一次是洛杉磯聯合學區。

According to Klawans and others, ritual impurity arises from physical substances and states which are not in themselves sinful. 據克洛文和其他人所説，儀式上的不潔產生於物質和狀態，它們本身並不有罪。

Although origin in ritual has long been the most popular, it is by no means the only theory about how the theater came into being. 儘管戲劇起源於宗教儀式的説法目前是最被大眾認可的，但這並非戲劇起源的唯一定論。

Parts of the ceremony involve ritual hair cutting, tying cotton threads soaked in holy water around the bride's and groom's wrists. 儀式的一部分包括儀式剪髮，在新郎和新娘的手腕上綁浸在聖水裏的棉線。

According to Klawans, ritual purification involved separation from those aspects of humanity, death and sex, which are least God-like. 根據克洛文的理解，儀式的淨化包括從人性、死亡和性的那些方面分離出來，這些方面與上帝最不相似。

My impatience with the customs ritual indicated that Chloe, who I had not known existed a few hours ago, had already acquired the status of a craving. 我對海關例行公事的不耐煩暗示着，幾小時前我還不知道存在的克洛艾，已經產生了渴望的狀態。

The word religion is derived from the Latin noun religio, which denotes both earnest observance of ritual obligations and an inward spirit of reverence. 宗教一詞源自拉丁語宗教名詞，它既表示認真遵守儀式義務，又表示內向的崇敬精神。

Although church ritual had sustained an interest in timekeeping throughout the centuries of urban collapse that followed the fall of Rome, church time was nature's time. 儘管在羅馬帝國滅亡後的城市崩潰的幾個世紀裏，教堂的儀式一直保持着人們對計時的興趣，但教堂的時間是自然的時間。

The most widely accepted theory, championed by anthropologists in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, envisions theater as emerging out of myth and ritual. 19世紀末和20世紀初的人類學家們擁護的最廣為接受的理論認為，戲劇起源於神話和宗教儀式。

It made sense to show the statue looking ahead at what was happening in front of it, so that the living performer of the ritual could interact with the divine or deceased recipient. 讓雕像朝前看、並能觀看到前方發生的事情是有意義的，這樣，現場的儀式表演者就可以與受膜拜的神靈或逝去的人們互動。

She objects to the ritual of organized religion. 她反對有組織宗教的儀規。

The whole Italian culture revolves around the ritual of eating. 整個意大利文化是圍繞着飲食習俗的。

I realized that here the conventions required me to make the ritual noises. 我意識到這裏的習俗要求我得説套話。

The ritual of the party conference is acted out in the same way every year. 該黨的大會程序年年照行如儀。

Set up a bedtime ritual by taking a warm bath or shower, reading a book or listening to soft music. 養成睡前習慣，泡個熱水浴或洗個熱水澡，讀本書或聽輕音樂。

Those who knew the secrets of making iron gained ritual and sometimes political power. 那些掌握了制鐵技術的人們常可獲得宗教權利，有時候獲得政治權利。

The coffee ritual is incomplete without a delicious pastry or a slice of chocolate cake. 美味的油酥點心或一塊巧克力蛋糕在喝咖啡時也是必不可少的。

They are perhaps more at home in folk songs, in popular tales and the ritual dramas of films. 他們可能更熟悉民歌、流行故事和電影中的宗教儀式。

They were designed to be put in places where these beings could manifest themselves in order to be the recipients of ritual actions. 它們被設計出來是為了放置在一些地方，神靈會在那裏顯靈，成為宗教活動的受祭者。

The baccalauréat exam season approaches, and with it ritual agonising over the standard of French spelling. 法國高考日益臨近，隨之而來的是學生的法語拼寫水平令人憂心忡忡。

Create a relaxing bedtime ritual. 創造一個放鬆的就寢儀式。

Create a ritual around this goal. 為目標創造一種儀式。 ^[1]