cults

英 [kʌlts]

美 [kʌlts]

n.  (对生活方式、看法、观念等的)狂热，时尚，崇拜; (有极端宗教信仰的)异教团体; 宗教信仰; 宗教习俗
cult的复数

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT 小宗教组织;(尤指)异教，邪教
  Acultis a fairly small religious group, especially one which is considered strange.
  1. The teenager may have been abducted by a religious cult...
     这个少年可能被一个异教组织绑架了。
  2. The cult of Isis was carried from Egypt into Greece and Rome.
     对伊希斯的膜拜从埃及传到了希腊和罗马。
• ADJ 受特定群体欢迎的;在特定群体中流行的
  Cultis used to describe things that are very popular or fashionable among a particular group of people.
  1. Since her death, she has become a cult figure...
     她死后成了部分人狂热崇拜的偶像。
  2. The film is destined to become a cult classic...
     这部电影注定会成为风靡一时的经典之作。
  3. The Osaka-based group is popular home in Japan and has developed a cult following in the United States.
     那个来自大阪的组合在日本本土很受欢迎，在美国也拥有一批狂热的歌迷。
• N-SING (特定群体的)偶像，时尚
  Someone or something that is aculthas become very popular or fashionable among a particular group of people.
  1. Ludlam was responsible for making Ridiculous Theatre something of a cult...
     荒诞派戏剧的风靡要归功于勒德拉姆。
  2. The bra has gone from being a fashion classic to a fashion cult.
     胸罩已经从经典时尚转变为流行时尚。
• N-COUNT 热潮;关注
  Thecultof something is a situation in which people regard that thing as very important or special.
  1. ...the cult of youth that recently gripped publishing...
     对青年的关注成为近期出版界的焦点
  2. Society is entitled and bound to protect itself against a cult of violence...
     社会有权力和义务保护自身不受暴力行为的侵害。
  3. Meanwhile the personality cult around this campaigner grew.
     同时，对这位竞选者的个人崇拜正在逐渐升温。

双语例句

• Belief in the existence of extraterrestrial life has led to the creation of various cults and religious sects.
  由于人们对存在外星生命的信仰，从而产生了各种信徒和宗教流派。
• In that sense, the work of GATA might be seen as an echo of the cargo cults that anthropologists study in the Pacific Islands: something that offers pattern and meaning amid terrifying disorder.
  在这个意义上，gata的工作可能令人联想到人类学家在太平洋岛屿上研究的货物崇拜：某种在造成可怕混乱的同时，带来模式和意义的东西。
• Let us pray for the influx of cults from abroad and believers being led astray.
  让我们为中国教会能维持纯正的信仰来祷告。
• There have been cults that killed, just not in ritual fashion.
  发生过凶杀的仪式，不只是做成仪式的样子。
• Religious cults gather millions of believers, not because their doctrines make sense, but because they feed off deep-seated human weaknesses.
  宗教祭仪可以聚集数以百万计的信徒，但这并非因为他们的教义有何意义，而是因为他们需要依赖人类深层次的软弱维持生计。
• Where in the world of religions, cults and creeds, can we find a master of such brilliance?
  在这个具有宗教、教理、教仪的世界上，何处还能够找到这么一位卓越而出色的导师？！
• Members of wacky religious cults are not part of a well-regulated militia.
  离奇古怪的宗教会道门成员不是管理严密的民兵队伍的组成部分。
• There are three kinds of cults of deities in Suzhou.
  明清时代苏州地区的神灵大致可分为三类：即祀典之神、私祀之神以及淫祀。
• All these religions were flourishing side by side with many less prominent cults.
  所有这些宗教和许多次要的教派一起，共同繁荣。
• Millenialism is also a prominent teaching in pseudo-Christian cults such as the Mormons and Jehovah's Witnesses.
  千禧年主义也是一些诸如摩门教和耶和华见证人这样异端的重要教导。