reformation

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中文翻译

n. 改革, 改正, 重新形成, 重新组成

英文解释

n. improvement (or an intended improvement) in the existing form or condition of institutions or practices etc.; intended to make a striking change for the better in social or political or religious affairs

n. a religious movement of the 16th century that began as an attempt to reform the Roman Catholic Church and resulted in the creation of Protestant churches

词态变化

复数形式:reformations

常见例句

n surgery concerned with therapeutic or cosmetic reformation of tissue

Henry VIII's divorce from her was the initial step of the Reformation in England (1485-1536) n empress of Russia who greatly increased the territory of the empire (1729-1796)

n a reformation intended to counter the results of a prior reformation

although his criticisms of the Roman Catholic Church led to the Reformation, he opposed violence and condemned Martin Luther (1466-1536)

n a person who is very small but who is not otherwise deformed or abnormal n a tiny fully formed individual that (according to the discredited theory of preformation) is supposed to be present in the sperm cell