chalice

noun

1. 大酒杯；（尤指基督教的）圣爵
   a large cup for holding wine, especially one from which wine is drunk in the Christian Communion service

1. (基督教圣餐礼上所用的)圣餐杯，圣杯
   A chalice is a large gold or silver cup with a stem. Chalices are used to hold wine in the Christian service of Holy Communion.
2. PHRASE 金杯毒酒(指看似诱人、实则只会导致失败的工作或机会)
   If you refer to a job or an opportunity as a poisoned chalice, you mean that it seems to be very attractive but you believe it will lead to failure.
   1. He does not regard his new job as a poisoned chalice...
      他并不认为自己的新工作是金杯毒酒。
   2. Some people even claimed that he appointed his political rival only in the belief that he was giving him a poisoned chalice and that he would not last more than a year.
      有人甚至说，他之所以任命自己的政治对手，是因为他知道所给的职位是杯诱人的毒酒，接受者肯定撑不过一年。

1. He does not regard his new job as a poisoned chalice
   他并不认为自己的新工作是金杯毒酒。
2. Some people even claimed that he appointed his political rival only in the belief that he was giving him a poisoned chalice and that he would not last more than a year.
   有人甚至说，他之所以任命自己的政治对手，是因为他知道所给的职位是杯诱人的毒酒，接受者肯定撑不过一年。
3. Our destiny offers, not the cup of despair, but the chalice of opportunity.
   命运赐予我们的不是绝望的苦酒，而是机会的美餐。
4. These include chalice glasses, curved beer flutes, tankards and novel curved glasses.
   这些酒杯包括圣餐杯、长笛啤酒杯、大啤酒杯和新奇弯曲型酒杯。
5. Chalice, of base metal
   高脚酒杯，贱金属制
6. His symbols are the chalice and fountain representing purification and rejuvenation, but also the white lily and jasmine standing for purity.
   祂的象徵物是圣杯与喷泉，代表纯净与回春，另外还有代表纯洁的百合与茉莉。
7. A linen cloth or a square of cardboard faced with cloth used to cover the chalice.
   圣餐杯的罩布用来盖圣餐杯的亚麻布或覆有布的一块厚纸板废纸可以被压制成厚厚的硬纸板。插图用纸板：单面而厚实的绘画用纸。
8. Miss Chalice beamed with pleasure when he rose.
   当他站起身时，查理丝小姐高兴地抿嘴一笑。
9. "Chalice from the palace has the brew that is true?"
   “宫殿中的圣杯中有着真正的酿造？”
10. Indeed, Jong-eun, who is probably only about 27 years old, may inherit a poisoned chalice as international financial sanctions, tightened since the sinking of a South Korean warship in March, bite hard.
    实际上，或许只有大约27岁的金正恩继承的可能是一盏金杯毒酒，因为自3月份韩国军舰沉没后，国际社会加大了对朝鲜的金融制裁力度，令该国深受影响。
11. The Pope then brought out a communion wafer and a chalice of wine.
    教皇出示领圣体用的饼，还有一杯圣酒。
12. The leadership of North Korea could be a poisoned chalice.
    朝鲜领导层有点像一只被下毒的圣杯。
13. If you have the chalice hop on and ride it out of here.
    如果你有高脚杯就乘坐它离开这里。
14. Our destiny offers not the cup of despair, but the chalice of opportunity. ( Richard Nixon, American President)
    命运的失望之酒，而是机会之杯。（美国总统尼克松。R。）
15. Dan said the prayers that accompany communion, we all took bread, and drank from a chalice of wine that we passed around our circle.
    丹作了结束圣餐礼的祷告，我们都吃了面包，喝了在我们圈中转递的圣餐杯中的酒。
16. The chalice used by Christ during the last supper.
    耶酥在最后的晚餐上使用过这个杯。
17. She was essentially feminine, in other words, a parasite and a chalice.
    她在本质上是个女人，换句话说，是一个食客和一只酒杯。
18. He inherited a poisoned chalice when he took over the job as union leader.
    他接手工会领道职务，看似风光，实则会给他带来很多麻烦。
19. The country will host the next United Nations climate summit in December although that might prove to be something of a poisoned chalice.
    该国将于今年12月主办下一届联合国气候峰会，但那可能是一盏“金杯毒酒”。
20. The High Priestess lifts her arms out, and in that gesture, he very body becomes the living symbol of a chalice.
    女祭司张开双臂，姿势如同有生命的圣杯符号。
21. Some churches have also begun to allow "intinction" or dipping bread in communion wine rather than sharing the chalice, while others have stopped offering wine altogether, the newspaper said.
    报纸上说，有的教堂已经开始允许用面包蘸圣餐酒，不再共用圣餐杯，而其他一些教堂则完全停止供应集体圣餐酒了。
22. The chalice or the wine used in the celebration of the Eucharist.
    用于圣餐庆典中的酒杯或酒。
23. It's not clear yet that this treatment is a magic chalice, but the study suggests that the molecule, called resveratrol, is a potent protector of health and life in mammals.
    现在还不清楚该疗法是否疗效显著，但研究提示，对于哺乳动物，这种叫做白藜芦醇的分子是健康和生命的潜在保护因子。
24. These noises converged in a single sensation of life for me: I imagined that I bore my chalice safely through a throng of foes.
    这些声音汇集到一起，只给我一种感觉：我想象着自己带着圣杯，安全地穿过敌群。
25. Relevant analysis shows that the tension factor is positively correlated to Chinese chalice stagnation sputum interference syndrome, liver Qi stagnation, phlegm, liver deficiency, and blood deficiency syndromes.
    通过和中医证候的相关性分析可见紧张因子与中医胆郁痰扰、肝郁气滞、痰湿、肝虚、血虚证候呈正相关。
26. Depression is positively correlated to liver Qi stagnation, Qi deficiency, liver deficiency, phlegm, and Spleen and chalice stagnation sputum interference, blood deficiency syndrome.
    抑郁因子与肝郁气滞、气虚、肝虚、痰湿、脾虚、胆郁痰扰、血虚证候呈正相关。

n.

a poisoned chalice

• 金杯毒酒
  a thing which seems attractive when it is given to sb but which soon becomes unpleasant

noun

1. a bowl-shaped drinking vessel

   Synonym:    goblet