nuns

1·Nuns take a vow of chastity.

修女矢发贞洁愿。

—— 《牛津词典》

2·Now some abstinence might be voluntary, Catholic priests and nuns, or others who affirmatively opt for celibacy.

一些性节制可能是自愿的，比如说神父和修女，另一些则是肯定地选择独身生活。

3·Duchez recalls that when she went to school at age 6, in 1920, the nuns told of how they became nurses and put sulfur in their shoes to protect themselves from catching diseases.

她回忆道，1920年她6岁的时候，刚刚上小学，修女就跟她讲自己是如何当护士，并在她们自己鞋子里放满了硫磺以保护她们。

4·The girl was in Form Five at the Convent, long stripped of nuns after the British left.

这个女孩在女修道院上五年级，那里自从英国殖民者离开后就一直缺少修女。

5·The two nuns in their dazzling white habits — the beautiful-boned young nun and the warm-faced old — would glide to the open cane-and-thatch schoolroom in darkness, and start the children singing.

两位修女，身穿耀眼的白色道服——年轻的修女身材姣好，年长的那位慈眉善目——会在夜色中悄然来到开着门的用藤条茅草搭建的教室里，让孩子们唱歌。

1·Ah Q had always had the greatest contempt for such people as little nuns.

小尼姑之流是阿q本来视如草芥的。

—— 《新英汉大辞典》

2·One CHP billboard, featuring a chador-clad figure, called on voters to vote no "if you don't want to be forced to dress like nuns".

CHP的大幅广告牌是一个穿着长袍的人，号召人们投不同意，“如果你不想被迫穿得像尼姑一样”。

3·For Arri Eisen, a biology professor at Emory, teaching the monks and nuns helped him consider "how to nurture positive thinking. Western education doesn't nurture empathy."

阿里埃森，艾莫利大学生物教授，对他来说，教育这些和尚和尼姑使他思考，“怎样培育积极的思考，西方教育是不培育同情心的？”

4·In the early morning, red-robed nuns and monks were hurrying on their way to the event location on the other side of the river. (This photo and caption were submitted to My Shot.)

在那天的清晨，穿着红袍的尼姑和和尚在河的一边赶往法事的现场。

5·Around 50 nuns live there, on rations winched up from the monastery over a deep river gorge.

大约50个尼姑住在那里，由寺庙跨越一个深河谷供给。