damnation
/dæmˈneɪʃn/ (bre, ipa) · /dæmˈneɪʃn/ (ame, ipa) · /dam-ˈnā-shən/ (ame, mw)
damnation — 名詞
1. in Christian belief, the fate of being sent by God to suffer forever in hell, or
下地獄；天譴
被神判決永世受罰的命運
in Christian belief, the fate of being sent by God to suffer forever in hell, or the act by which God decides this fate.
The preacher warned the village that lying about the harvest would bring eternal damnation.
傳道人警告村民，若在收成上撒謊就會永世下地獄。
collocation: eternal damnation
Medieval paintings often showed sinners falling into damnation while angels carried the good souls upward.
中世紀的畫作常描繪罪人墜入地獄受永罰，而天使則將善良的靈魂帶往天上。
pattern: falling into damnation
Ignacio grew up afraid of damnation because his grandmother described hell in vivid detail every Sunday.
Ignacio 從小就害怕天譴，因為他的祖母每個禮拜天都鉅細靡遺地描述地獄。
In the old sermon, the priest spoke of damnation as a punishment that no prayer could undo.
在那篇古老的講道中，神父把下地獄受永罰說成一種任何禱告都無法挽回的懲罰。
Élise stopped going to church after she rejected the idea that a loving God would send anyone to damnation.
Élise 不願再相信慈愛的神會把任何人送入地獄受永罰，便不再上教會了。
- perdition
older and more literary; same religious meaning as damnation
- hellfire
vivid sermon word focused on the burning torment, not the verdict itself
- condemnation
wider meaning of formal disapproval; only sometimes religious
- salvation
the religious opposite: being saved from hell and welcomed into heaven
- redemption
being forgiven and rescued from sin, so damnation no longer applies
文法句型
damnation of [someone]
eternal damnation
用法筆記
Almost always tied to Christian or other religious contexts; outside religion, the word survives mainly in fixed exclamations and rhetorical phrases like 'eternal damnation' or 'the road to damnation'.