convent

noun

1. 女隐修院；女修道院
   a building in which nuns (= members of a female religious community) live together
2. 女修会开办的学校
   a school run by nuns

1. 女修道院
   A convent is a building in which a community of nuns live.
2. 同 convent school
   A convent is the same as a convent school .

1. She entered a convent.
   她成为了一名修女。
2. She attended a convent school and went to Mass each day.
   她上的是教会学校，每天都去做弥撒。
3. I've tried to pass off my accent as a convent school accent.
   我努力将口音装成女修会学校的口音。
4. The living in the convent narrowed her views.
   修道院的生活使她的视野变窄了。
5. The convent wears her own special habit.
   那修女穿着自己独特的服装。
6. Fortunately, he was saved from his burning plane by a group of nuns from a neayby convent.
   幸运的是，附近修道院里的一群修女把他从燃烧的飞机里救了出来。
7. This abbreviation had been adopted in the convent.
   这个简称是在那修院里用惯了的。
8. It is in consequence of this decay that the convent gave up the education of girls.
   正是由于那种萧条，修院才放弃了对小姑娘们的教养。
9. This convent was for Jean Valjean like an island surrounded by gulfs.
   那修院对冉阿让来说，好象是个四面全是悬崖绝壁的孤岛。
10. Marie pinned in the convent for a year, until her eighteenth birthday was passed.
    玛丽在修女院呆了一年，直到她过了18岁的生日。
11. I'm from the convent. I'm the new governess, Captain.
    我从修道院来，是新来的家庭教师，上校。
12. A cradle on the gate of an Italian convent gives desperate mothers a safe place to abandon a baby.
    意大利女修道院大门上的摇篮为绝望的妈妈们而设，给她们抛弃的婴儿们提供了一个安全的庇护所。
13. So you wiII stay in the convent?
    那么你会呆在修道院里面了？
14. I will do it or go into the convent at charleston.
    我要这样办，或者到查尔斯顿的修道院里去当修女。
15. She learned to cook at a convent school in newbury.
    她在纽伯里的一所女修道院学校里学会了烹饪。
16. She came to the convent with a degree in civil engineering.
    她来到修道院的时候已经获得了土木工程学位。
17. She was bunked from the convent last term.
    她上个学期从女修道院逃跑了。
18. She could not go, she said, because there would be a retreat that week in her convent.
    她说她不能去，因为她们修道院里这星期有一次静修。
19. She told me of her wish to leave the convent.
    她告诉我她希望离开修道院。
20. She had been to a convent school, had an IQ of 167, and spoke five languages.
    她童年就读的是修女学校，智商高达167，会说五种语言。
21. Michele says it's wrong to send me to the convent.
    米切尔说送我去教会学校是送错了。
22. At the convent, I'd pretend to faint.
    在修道院那会，我假装晕倒。
23. In the convent I attended, the recommended readings were stories of the saints and martyrs.
    在女修道院，我阅读了有关圣人和殉教者的故事的推荐读物。
24. So don't tell me, you're a convent girl.
    别告诉我你是个修女。
25. I must leave the convent to help the poor by living among them.
    我必须离开修道院去和穷人们住在一起去帮助他们。
26. I got them tied up like a couple of girl friends in the convent.
    我把他们两个象是修道院的一对女朋友似的绑在一起了。
27. However, at the age of eight, I went to a Catholic convent school for a year and became acquainted with another aspect of Christianity.
    然而在我八岁那年，我去一所天主教修女院学校上一年学，我对基督教的另一面有了了解。
28. I initially got interested in Mary the Queen Convent because my aunt is a Catholic nun and I wanted to pursue a project that focused on the intersection of religion and death.
    我当初对这个修道院产生兴趣是因为我的姨妈是一名天主教修女。我想继续做一个项目，关注宗教和死亡的交集。
29. With scarcely another word I saw her to the convent, then took the bus back to carfax.
    我送她去修道院的路上几乎没有再说什么话，后来搭了公共汽车回到卡尔法克斯。

  monastery abbey convent nunnery【导航词义：修道院，寺院】

  monastery n. 修道院，寺院

〔辨析〕指修道士、僧侣居住、修道之处。

  abbey n. 大修道院，大寺院

〔辨析〕指带建筑群的大教堂，通常供修道士或修女居住、修道等。

  convent n. 女修道院

〔辨析〕供修女居住、修道等的建筑或建筑群。

  nunnery n. 〈旧〉女修道院，尼姑庵

〔辨析〕词义同 convent，但现已少用。

noun

1. a religious residence especially for nuns

2. a community of people in a religious order (especially nuns) living together