votive

常见例句

It is worth visiting Volterra for this museum alone and for just one exhibit, a bronze votive figure of a boy, extraordinarily elongated in form.
游览沃尔泰拉是值得的，即使仅仅为了这个博物馆，一个展览，一个男孩许愿的青铜雕像，在形式上额外的加长。
Just switch on the environmentally friendly votive, leave it in direct sunlight and -- like those solar yard spike-lights -- it continually does its thing.
只要把开关打向环境采光，将之置于阳光直射处（就像那些院子里的太阳能灯一样），它就能一直收集太阳光。
The centrepiece is a teocalli, a massive votive sculpture in the shape of a temple platform, built in 1507 to mark the end of a 52-year cycle in the Mexica calendar.
整个展览的中心是一座古代大型祭祀神庙的雕刻，雕刻成神殿平台之形。这座建于1507年的神庙用来标示古墨西哥历法中52年周期的结束。

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But in the darkened chapel it was so silent he could hear the faint sweet sibilance as knuckling flames consumed the wicks of the votive candles.
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