英語趣味課堂： 喜歡印度 loving India

My name is Jeff Eagar. I'm from Canada but I just spent six months in India and I love India. I think India is my favorite country in the whole world. India is very interesting. It's real life. It's the good and the bad, and the rich and the poor, and the happy and the struggling, all together in one country, and when you go to India, you feel a lot of emotion, you feel a lot of sadness and happiness and joy and that's why India is my favorite country.

India is a very interesting culture, and it's a very old culture. It takes a little bit of time for you to get used to India when you go there. They go things differently from other countries. I was eating with my hands in India. You eat with your hand and your left hand acts as toilet paper, because they don't have toilet paper in India, and they are mostly Hindu and they believe in the Hindi, Hindu religion, and it's a very old religion. A very beautiful religion, they have many gods and many deities, and it's very colorful and they do lots, lots of religions ceremonies with fire and with bells, and with holy priests, and it's very visually, for your eyes, it's an interesting place, a very interesting thing to see

學(xué)習(xí)內(nèi)容：

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a little bit

It takes a little bit of time for you to get used to India when you go there.

Used like this 'a little bit' is similar to some. The example is saying that you are not immediately used to India, it takes some time to adapt. Notice the following:

You will need a little bit of patience to deal with cultural differences.

It always takes a little bit of time to get your food at this restaurant.

acts

In India, you eat with your hand and your left hand acts as toilet paper.

'Acts,' in this example, can be replaced with 'is used as' or 'replaces.' Basically, people use their left hand instead of toilet paper. Notice the following:

The waterfall acts like a natural shower.

These games act as entertainment for the village.

religion

The Hindu religion is very old.

A 'religion' is a set of beliefs or ideas about the ways of the world and how it was created and should function. There are many different religions in the world. Notice the following:

Which is the most popular religion in your country?

He learns about religions all over the world.

deities

The Hindu religion has many deities.

A 'deity' is a god or spiritual character. Notice the following:

There is a deity for luck and another one for love.

There are sculptures and images of deities all over the house.

holy priests

They conduct their religious ceremonies with holy priests.

A 'holy priest' is a spiritual leader who has been trained to lead ceremonies. Notice the following:

He is training to become a priest.

The wedding was performed by a holy priest.

1 deities

n.神，女神( deity的名詞復(fù)數(shù) );神祗;神靈;神明

參考例句：

Zeus and Aphrodite were ancient Greek deities. 宙斯和阿佛洛狄是古希臘的神。 來自《簡明英漢詞典》

Taoist Wang hesitated occasionally about these transactions for fearof offending the deities. 道士也有過猶豫，怕這樣會得罪了神。 來自漢英文學(xué) - 現(xiàn)代散文

2 holy

adj.神圣的，圣潔的，至善的;n.神圣的東西

參考例句：

She was still a holy and pure young girl.她仍是一個圣潔的少女。

He reads the Holy Bible every night.他每晚讀《圣經(jīng)》。

3 priest

n.神父，牧師，司鐸，司祭，領(lǐng)導(dǎo)者，神甫;vt.使成為神職人員

參考例句：

He confessed to a priest that he had sinned.他向神父懺悔他犯了罪。

The priest visited all the old people in the parish.牧師探望了教區(qū)里的所有老人。

4 priests

n.(基督教和羅馬天主教的)神父( priest的名詞復(fù)數(shù) );牧師;(非基督教會的)教士;祭司

參考例句：

the ordination of women priests 女司祭的授職禮

The clergy remain divided on the issue of women priests. 在女性教士的問題上，牧師們意見不一。 來自《簡明英漢詞典》

5 visually

adv.視覺上;外表上;看得見地;形象化地

參考例句：

a visually handicapped child 弱視兒童

Our findings relate to physically rather than the visually handicapped pupils. 我們的研究結(jié)果是關(guān)于肢體殘疾的學(xué)生，而不是視力有障礙的學(xué)生。 來自《簡明英漢詞典》

6 deity

n.神，神性;被奉若神明的人(或物)

參考例句：

Many animals were seen as the manifestation of a deity.許多動物被看作神的化身。

The deity was hidden in the deepest recesses of the temple.神藏在廟宇壁龕的最深處。

7 spiritual

adj.精神上的，神圣的，崇高的，高尚的，鬼的，招魂論的&n.有關(guān)教會的事

參考例句：

His spiritual nature is good.他心靈本質(zhì)上是善良的。

Their friendship was strictly spiritual.他們的友情完全是精神上的。

8 sculptures

n.雕刻( sculpture的名詞復(fù)數(shù) );雕刻品;雕刻術(shù);雕塑術(shù)

參考例句：

She creates sculptures out of scrap materials. 她利用廢舊材料進行雕塑創(chuàng)作。 來自《簡明英漢詞典》

He asked one of his helpers to borrow some hammers and tear down the Buddhist sculptures. 他吩咐幫手去借幾個鐵錘，讓原先幾座塑雕委曲一下。 來自漢英文學(xué) - 現(xiàn)代散文

9 religious

adj.宗教性的，虔誠的，宗教上的;n.修道士，出家人

參考例句：

She is very religious person who goes to church every Sunday.她十分虔誠，每個星期天都上教堂。

It is hard for me to reject religious beliefs.要我拋棄自己的宗教信仰是困難的。