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Collins English-Chinese Dictionary
Comprehensive English-Chinese Dictionary
Collins English-English Dictionary
- salvation [sæl'veɪʃən]
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n
the act of preserving or the state of being preserved from harm
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2.
n
a person or thing that is the means of preserving from harm
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3.
n
[Christianity]
deliverance by redemption from the power of sin and from the penalties ensuing from it
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n
[Christian Science]
the realization that Life, Truth, and Love are supreme and that they can destroy such illusions as sin, death, etc
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n
[Etymology]
C13: from Old French sauvacion, from Late Latin salv
a tio , from Latin salva tus saved, from salva re tosave 1
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1.
n
the act of preserving or the state of being preserved from harm
Examples
- the Salvation Army
- 【基督教】救世主 → army
- They hope God can give them salvation.
- 他们希望上帝能够拯救他们。 → god
- to be beyond salvation
- 无可救药 → salvation
- the Salvation Army Hymn Book → Salvation Army
- 团结自救
- get united for one's own salvation → 自救
- 这位参加过妇救会的老人在给我们讲抗战的故事。
- The old women from the Women's Salvation Federation are telling us stories of the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression. → 妇救会
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