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Collins English-Chinese Dictionary
Comprehensive English-Chinese Dictionary
Collins English-English Dictionary
- pilgrimage ['pɪlgrɪmɪʤ]
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1.
n
a journey to a shrine or other sacred place
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2.
n
a journey or long search made for exalted or sentimental reasons
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3.
vi.
[intr]
to make a pilgrimage
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1.
n
a journey to a shrine or other sacred place
Examples
- to go on {or} make a pilgrimage to
- 前去朝圣 → pilgrimage
- a pilgrimage is a reverential act, performed by reverent people → reverential
- 朝圣
- (of religious people) make a pilgrimage to a sacred place → 朝
- 他此行的目的是去泰山朝顶。
- The purpose of his trip is to make a pilgrimage to Mount Tai. → 朝顶
- 信徒们朝山进香， 无比虔诚。
- Pious Buddhists make a pilgrimage to a mountain temple where they burn incense before Buddha in a display of devout reverence. → 朝山进香
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