breviary

[US]/'briːvɪərɪ/
[UK]/'brivɪɛri/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

n.摘要;[天主教]每日祈祷书
Word Forms

Example Sentences

What time was left to him, after these thousand details of business, and his offices and his breviary, he bestowed first on the necessitous, the sick, and the afflicted;

那些无穷尽的事务和他的日课以及祈祷所余下的时间,他首先用在贫病和痛苦的人身上;

Real-world Examples

Of the two priests, one was sitting in his underwear reading his breviary and the other was wearing a nightshirt and saying the rosary.

至于那两个教士,一个正穿着内衣①坐在那里读祈祷书,另一个则穿着睡衣在念玫瑰经。

Source: Selected Short Stories of Hemingway

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