《時代經(jīng)典用詞》人文篇 宗教

Religion
宗教
Amish
阿米希教派
If there are Americans who feel as alienated as the Amish, let them live like the Amish-without harassment,
如果有美國人感覺像阿米希教派那么疏離的話，就讓他們像阿米希教派那樣生活好了－不受騷擾，
but without subsidize proselytizing for their rejectionist world views.
但是也并不動用政府補貼來誘使別人信仰他們那種棄世的世界觀。
apotheosis
最高尊崇，崇高理想的達成
The drama of the U.S. in its progress from the stock-market crash of 1929, through the Great Depression,
美國的進展，從１９２９年的股市崩盤、歷經(jīng)經(jīng)濟大衰退、
its victory in World War 2 and its prosperous domination of the postwar years might be seen as a vast morality play culminating in the apotheosis of the American middle class and its values.
第二次大戰(zhàn)的勝利與戰(zhàn)后繁榮的霸權，乍看之下好像一出中古時代的道德劇，全劇的高潮在于美國中產(chǎn)階級與其價值觀得到最高的尊崇。
born-again
重生的
He says straight out that he has received Chrit as his Saviour, that he is a born-again believer and that he reads the Bible daily.
他毫不忌諱，直接表示他接受了主耶穌，他是重生的信徒，而且每天讀圣經(jīng)。
The maxim "Once burned, twice shy" apparently doesn't mean much to televangelist Jimmy Swaggart.
諺語“一朝被蛇咬……”似乎對電視布道家Ｊｉｍｍｙ?。樱鳎幔纾纾幔颍魶]什么作用。
credo
信念，信條
Shamir's credo is that Arabs hate Israelis until proved otherwise
沙米爾的一則信條就是：阿拉伯人都恨以色列人，除非另有證據(jù)。
And so to the creed of the Games - faster, higher, stronger - she adds words she knows all too well.
所以，在奧運信條－更快、更高、更強－之上，她加上了一些她很熟悉的字：
Harder. Longer. Badder. She has worked so hard, tried for so long, wanted so bad.
更努力、更久、更殷切。她已經(jīng)鍛煉得這么努力，嘗試了這么久，渴望得這么殷切。
fall from grace
蒙羞，失去地位，失寵
Graham has, however, ministered to his wayward fellow preachers; after Jim Bakker's fall from grace,
可是Ｇｒａｈａｍ對不循正軌的同行布道家也愿意服務。
he quietly visited the imprisoned elevangelist in Minneota for a prayer session.
他私下到明尼蘇達的監(jiān)獄探望這位電視布道家，和他一起禱告。
His fall from grace came almost as fast, after it was revealed that he had used steroids to achieve his world-beating performance.
可是很快就名譽掃地，因為發(fā)現(xiàn)他使用類固醇來達到世界第一的演出。
Holy Grail
圣杯
The ultimate goal of speech-recognition researchers-what they call their Holy Grail-is an automatic dictation machine that can listen to normal conversationalspeech and turn it into perfectly typed text.
語音識別專家的終極目標－他們叫做圣杯的－就是自動聽寫機器，可以聽懂正常會話的口音，并一字不誤地打出字來。
The Holy Grail of Columbus studies would be the long-lost original log of his first voyage to what he called
“哥倫布研究”的圣杯是第一次航向他所謂的“印度”時所留下的原始航海日志，這是早已亡失了。
"the Indies," which exists only in a badly garbled abridgment made after his death by the Spanish priest Bartolom de las Casas.
目前我們有的只是西班牙神父卡薩斯在哥倫布死后根據(jù)原始日志所做的節(jié)錄，而且內(nèi)容十分混亂。
juggernaut
可怕的力量，令人為之瘋狂的事物
Many Americans see Japan's economic juggernaut as a continuation of war by other means.
許多美國人認為日本可怕的經(jīng)濟力量是以另一形式延續(xù)戰(zhàn)爭。
Can the Giants juggernaut crush quicksilve Montana?
巨人隊無堅不摧的氣勢能輾碎水銀一般的蒙大拿嗎？
litany
反復念頌，冗長的列舉
These latest glitches are mere footnotes in the seemingly endless litany of NASA's woes:
the Challenger disaster, the nearsighted Hubble Space Telescope,