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

• No personality cults are allowed, other than the one idolising Ho Chi Minh, the revolutionary leader, who died in 1969.
  个人崇拜也是不允许的，唯一的例外是1969年逝世的革命领袖胡志明。
• And both Chinese and English people show different cults, taboos and connotations towards the different or identical numbers so as to generate their own numeral cultures.
  对不同或相同的数字，汉英有着不同的崇尚或禁忌习俗，以及不同的联想和意义，并由此而孕育出各自独特的数字文化。
• Compared with the ordinary people, officials 'attitudes toward popular cults are more positive.
  与普通民众相比，官员对于对祠神信仰的态度更为积极。
• 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。
• They usually agree that the following are common characteristics of movements designated cults or sects.
  他们通常认同以下宗派或教派运动的共同特性。
• 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。
• Although Folk Beliefs in Suzhou District was always prosperous, it became much more thriving in Ming and Qing Dynasties, which was first an inevitable result of its development. But it was also related to the development of commodity economy and government's support of selected cults.
  苏州地区民间信仰历来兴盛，到了明清时期更趋发展，这一方面是其自身发展的必然结果，同时也与本地商品经济的发达息息相关，而统治者有选择的提倡则起了推波助澜的作用。
• How many cults and false teachers are there in the world or even in churches today?
  今天的世界，甚至教会有多少异端和假教师呢？
• This small, otherwise peaceful community has inspired stories of hauntings that include everything from a headless train conductor to pagan cults and the violent murders of livestock.
  这个其他方面都很祥和的小城，激发了各种各样的鬼故事，包括无头列车长，异教徒以及家畜残杀者等。