breviary

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

Translation

n.摘要;[天主教]每日祈禱書
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;

那些無窮盡的事務和他的日課以及祈禱所餘下的時間,他首先用在貧病和痛苦的人身上;

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.

至於那兩個教士,一個正穿着內衣①坐在那裏讀祈禱書,另一個則穿着睡衣在唸玫瑰經。

Source: Selected Short Stories of Hemingway

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