Harridan (續：巫術 猶太教 印度教 異端 褻瀆 單字大集合)

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n. (名詞 noun)



          1.    醜老太婆,巫婆,魔女





　

Was the killer Henri's unbalanced son Richard? His wife Therese (Madeleine Robinson) is a regular harridan; is she guilty? Robinson won the "Best Actress" award at the 1959 Venice Film Festival for her portrayal of Therese.





1.66 宗教

Hierophant



2.55 巫術

liturgical

thaumaturgical

dramaturgy

sorcery

If John’s illness resembles the [curse] put on Sleeping Beauty by an evil [sorcerer], 

shaman

"A man who survives being struck by lighting is completely changed," Eliade observed in an account of [Siberian] shamans. 黃教巫醫

Also forbidden: “talk of [shamans], of yoga classes, nutritional values, herbal teas, discovering your Boundaries, and Inner Growth.” Thank god.

seance

meeting in which a spiritualist attempts to communicate with the spirits of the dead

In a seance, the [shaman] leads a sensuous panic.



amulet

talisman

It doesn't remake Shakespeare so much as [evoke] him as a talisman

The whole reveals itself, and then you may return to it like a [talisman].

mascot

The mascot of Ridgemont [High] is the wolf, which is the same mascot of Van Nuys High School, where most of the school scenes were shot.

ankh

It's an ankh. It's Egyptian. Miriam gave it to me.

jinx

Shut up before you jinx us, Anne-Marie.

Ah, it's kind of like not talking to your pitcher in the middle of a no-hitter. What do you mean? Like you didn't want to jinx it?

whammy

The drought and the high price of fertilizer are a [double] whammy to farmers. 

New controls will put the whammy on irresponsible spending. 

Rachel Weisz is riveting as the manipulative Evelyn, whose motivation provides the type of concluding [emotional] whammy that LaBute favors.

scourge

a cause of affliction or calamity

[Disease] and [famine] are scourges of humanity.  



incantation

The attractions of impromptu ritual are [a] constant in Me and You, in the incantatory [recitations] Christine records for her videos

repetitious wordiness to conceal a lack of content, obfuscation

Her prose too often resorts to [incantation].  

Here, Ramsay makes her own musical comment with the Mamas and the Papas' [incantatory] cover of "Dedicated to the One I Love."

litany

of a series of invocations or supplications

We heard the [whole] litany of their complaints. 

Caden has begun suffering from a litany of physical [maladies]

cuss

I mean, you don't cuss none. You don't|talk that "What-ya-know-daddy" jive.



harridan

coven

Does this mean that the original film’s spawn of Satan storyline and the [coven] would be excluded?

Polanski's main present to his producer was a naked coven of elderly [witches],

hag

Was she an old hag with a mole on her face with hair growing out of it?





1.65 異端褻瀆

sabbatical

heresy

The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys [waxes] nostalgic for the far more innocent church scandal of teenage [heresy]. 

Danny Balint providing a [heretical] midrash on the biblical account of Isaac and Abraham. 

and all involving [heresy] in one form or another.

schism

East-West Schism or The Great Schism

as it examines the heartbreaking [schism] in the relationship between Frank and April Wheeler. 

proselytize

convert as a proselyte

recruit

and faith-for-faith's-sake [proselytizing] that Mark Twain could've worn a million pencils down to stubs and still not 

While the former part of that journey rings remarkably true and sincere during the opening act, it's the latter part that proves somewhat less satisfying as politics and proselytizing [careen] the film uncomfortably into message movie territory.



idiosyncratic 

idolatrous

For the story is framed as a [recollection], years after, of this idolatrous child who [floats] through the boardinghouse environment with [obvious] stars in her eyes.

iconoclasm 

pious 

having or showing a dutiful spirit of reverence for god or an earnest wish to fulfill religious obligations

characterized by a hypocritical concern with virtue or religious devotion, sanctimonious

practiced or used in the name of real or pretended religious motives. or for some ostensibly good object, falsely earnest or sincere

a pious [hypocrite] [deception]

Congress had done no more than set out some [pious] hopes.

sanctimonious 

Immersed in personality and what Roth called "America's oldest communal passion," [self]-righteous sanctimony,

consecration

like the opening scenes of the [con]secration and distribution of hosts and wine,

Only if the ground is consecrated to the christian belief.

well, he is buried|in consecrated ground.

desecration

Besides, the movie's so full of nods to comics and their creators that the fanboys will find room in their heart to forgive the [de]secration.

Don't you have a church to desecrate or something?

sacrilege 

Well, anyway, he stood in the tray and he poured the stuff all over him. Sacrilege.

blasphemy 

profanity 

execrate

imprecation

anathema

a person or thing detested or loathed

Instead of focusing on the art of celebrity—which, she insists, is anathema [to] credible screen performances



establishmentarian

a member of a pre-Christian religious order among the ancient Celts of Gaul, Britain, and Ireland.

he made it a [repository] of Celtic and druidic [folklore] and an [evenhanded] dialectical allegory of the culture war between free love and establishmentarian [censoriousness].

Episcopalian

I grew up Episcopalian. I grew up Presbyterian, and then I turned into Episcopalian. Well, I'm a Baptist. 主教派教會,聖公會成員

Episcopal

Well, excuse me for speaking my mind, ma'am, but do you really think a five-year-old will understand the goings-on of an Episcopal wedding? 英國國教的

Albigensian

It was used by the Cathars to defend themselves during the Albigensian crusades in the 13th century. 清潔教教徒的

Rastafarian

Among the many gifted actors gleefully [chewing] the scenery are Gary Oldman as an unbalanced Rastafarian pimp, 拉斯特法里 (派) (牙買加黑人教派,信奉黑人是上帝將拯救的人)

Pharisee

Like many truly spiritual films, it will offend the Pharisees. 法利賽人,偽善者,宗教上的形式主義者

Druid 

a member of a pre-Christian religious order among the ancient Celts of Gaul, Britain, and Ireland. 督伊德教團員





1.67 猶太教

1.68 印度教

1.69 回教

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