consecrated

基本解释

This battlefield is consecrated to the memory of soldiers who died here.
这个战场被视为圣地以纪念死于此处的战士。
Those books, both prose and verse, were consecrated to me by other associations; and I hate to have them debased and profaned in his mouth!
这些书，包括散文和诗，都由于一些别的联想，因此对于我是神圣不可侵犯的；我极不愿意这些书在他的口里被败坏亵渎！
Until the second phase of his life, he was a wrapt, consecrated solitary, pursuing his studies by intense introspection, with a mental endurance perhaps never equalled.
在他生命的第二阶段之前，他一直保持神圣的孤独，通过强烈的内省，以一种可能永无匹敌的精神毅力坚持他的研究。

The brave men,living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract.
And the election was entirely God's initiative and is no cause for Israel to boast. So Deuteronomy 7, verses 6-8 read: For you are a people consecrated to the Lord your God: of all the peoples on earth the Lord your God chose you to be His treasured people.
而选择也完全是上帝自愿的,不该是以色列吹嘘的原因，《申命记》第7章6-8节：,因为你归耶和华你身为圣洁的民：,从地上的万民中拣选你,耶和华选你作自己的子民。
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The brave men,living and dead,who struggled here,have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract.

That would violate many of the rules that other consecrated women were forced to live under.
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When a building, place, or object is consecrated, it is officially declared to be holy. When a person is consecrated, they are officially declared to be a bishop.