sanctum

英 [ˈsæŋktəm]

美 [ˈsæŋktəm]

n.  (不受干扰的)私室，密室; 圣所

复数：sanctums　

TEM8

BNC.22896 / COCA.20850

牛津词典

noun

• （不受干扰的）私室，密室
  a private room where sb can go and not be disturbed
  1. She once allowed me into her inner sanctum .
     有一次她让我进入她的内室。
• 圣所
  a holy place

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT (不受干扰的)私室，密室
  If you refer to someone'sinner sanctum, you mean a room which is private and sometimes secret, where they can be quiet and alone.
  1. His bedroom's his inner sanctum.
     卧室是他的一方净土。
• (寺庙、清真寺的)圣所,圣殿
  Asanctumis the holiest place inside a holy building such as a temple or mosque.

英英释义

noun

• a sacred place of pilgrimage
  Synonym:holy placeholy
• a place of inviolable privacy
  1. he withdrew to his sanctum sanctorum, where the children could never go
  Synonym:sanctum sanctorum

双语例句

• As a well-known Buddhist sanctum, the Buddhist tradition started on Mount Putuo can be traced back to the ancient Qin Dynasty.
  普陀山是全国著名的观音道场，其宗教活动可追溯于秦。
• The ensuing battle carried them down into the very halls of the darkened Monastery, bringing a final desecration to the once holy sanctum of the Horadrim.
  随后的战斗把他们逼入了漆黑的修道院大厅中央，在这曾经神圣庄严的赫拉迪克圣地上抹下最后的亵渎。
• Find the code and unlock the mysterious inner sanctum of the temple and you will deserve the honor of those who have gone before you.
  找到秘笈并且打开寺院秘室之门，你就会得到那些前辈们得到过的荣誉。
• His bedroom's his inner sanctum.
  卧室是他的一方净土。
• In the sanctum of the Living Computer, the Invid brain seethed with something very much like wrath.
  活体计算机所在的密室里，这台因维主脑沸腾着，很像是在发怒。
• Wudang Mountain, the Taoism sanctum, locates in the west and central of our country. Here, Taoism culture and Chinese medicinal herb resource are very abundant.
  道教圣地武当山地处我国中西部的结合部，道教文化积淀丰厚，中草药资源丰富。
• "For people to be in the inner sanctum, where emotions are high and things are happening, is threatening to us," said Jackson, whose Lakers get spotlighted again Thursday night in Cleveland by TNT.
  禅师说：对在私室的人来说，情绪高涨，事情发生着，这对我们有威胁。湖人将在周四晚在克里夫兰再次站在TNT的聚光灯下。
• The backmost square-shaped chamber of that inner shrine was the inner sanctum or the holy of holies.
  神殿最后面的正方形的空间，是内圣所或者说，最神圣的地方。
• I took one of the special programmed lifts which carry senior officers to the sixth-floor inner Sanctum.
  我走进受特殊程序控制的电梯中的一部，这是专送资深官员到七楼内部保密室的。
• Sanctum, Carving and History
  秘室雕饰历史