crozier

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crozier — 名詞

  • croziersingular
  • croziersplural

1. a decorated staff with a curved or cross-shaped top, carried by bishops in Chris

1.名詞C2
釋義

牧杖

主教使用的彎頭權杖

a decorated staff with a curved or cross-shaped top, carried by bishops in Christian ceremonies to signal their position as church leaders.

例句

Andrés watched the bishop raise his silver crozier to bless the gathered crowd.

Andrés 看著主教舉起銀色牧杖,為聚集的群眾祝福。

The wooden crozier, decorated with gold and precious stones, was over two hundred years old.

那根以黃金和寶石裝飾的木製牧杖,已經有兩百多年歷史了。

collocation: wooden / gold / silver crozier

常見搭配
  • silver crozier
  • gold crozier
  • wooden crozier
  • bishop's crozier
  • archbishop's crozier
  • carry a crozier
  • hold a crozier
  • raise a crozier
同義詞
  • pastoral staff

    a more formal, technical term for the same object, often used in theological writing

  • bishop's staff

    a descriptive, everyday term that emphasises who carries it rather than the object's symbolic meaning

文法句型

countable, usually singular

常見錯誤

The priest carried a wooden crozier.
The bishop carried a wooden crozier.
In most Christian traditions, only bishops and abbots carry a crozier, not ordinary priests.
The word is spelled crosier in all situations.
Crozier is the more common spelling, though crosier is also used.
Both spellings appear in English; crozier is the standard form in modern writing.

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常見搭配

常用片語

  • symbol of office
  • sign of authority