observances

英 [əbˈzɜːvənsɪz]

美 [əbˈzɜrvənsɪz]

n.  (对法律、习俗的)遵守，奉行; (节日的)纪念; 宗教(或传统节日)的仪式
observance的复数

柯林斯词典

• N-VAR （对法律、习俗等的）遵守，奉行
  Theobservanceof something such as a law or custom is the practice of obeying or following it.
  1. Local councils should use their powers to ensure strict observance of laws.
     地方政务委员会应当行使权力以保证人们严格遵守法律。

双语例句

• Experience spiritual observances and spectacular music and dance performances from around the world.
  体验世界各地的灵性仪规和壮丽的音乐和舞蹈表演。
• Yet each year brings disputes over holiday observances that some may see as too religious for public schools or other public places.
  然而，有些人认为在学校和其他公共场合举行的庆祝节日的宗教仪式，太过于宗教化。每年，在次问题上都会引起争议。
• He spent years and years in desultory studies, undertakings, and meditations; he began to evince considerable indifference to social forms and observances.
  多少年来，他进行了许多漫无边际的研究，尝试过多次杂乱无章的计划，进行过无数毫无系统的思考；开始对社会习俗和礼仪明显表现出满不在乎的态度。
• He hired an attorney to bring a discrimination case against Christians and Jews and observances of their holy days.
  他雇了一个律师，投诉基督徒、犹太教徒、以及他们圣日的纪念活动的歧视。
• The niyamas ( observances) are purity, contentment, mortification, study and devotion to God.
  精进是纯净、满足、苦行、研读和敬神。
• Religious observances began with the arrival of the Latin Patriarch, the head of the Roman Catholic Church in the Holy Land.
  宗教仪式是以天主教会驻圣地领袖拉丁大主教的到来开始的。
• Winsett himself had a savage abhorrence of social observances.
  温塞特自己对社会上的清规戒律深恶痛绝。
• It was the place whence proclamations were wont to be made, amidst an assemblage of the magistracy, with all the ceremonial that attended such public observances in those days.
  当年，在地方官开会中间如果要发布什么公告，需要镇民都来出席聆听时，就在这里举行种种仪式。
• Secondly, the author discusses the change of religious lifestyle from the perspectives of the structure and function of mosques and temples, religious observances and the intergenerational differences in religious faith.
  其次，从清真寺和寺坊的结构和功能、宗教信仰的遵守情况、宗教信仰的代际差异这三个方面讨论沔城回族宗教生活方式的变迁。
• The Iranian government has a precedent for using the anniversary observances to announce its technological advances.
  伊朗政府有利用周年纪念来宣布其技术创新的先例。