a place where people come to worship because it is connected with a holy person or event 圣地；圣祠；神庙；神龛 to visit the shrine of Mecca 前往圣地麦加朝拜 - shrine to somebody/something
a shrine to the Virgin Mary 敬奉圣母马利亚的朝圣地
Extra ExamplesTopics Religion and festivalsc1, Buildingsc1The people worshipped at wayside shrines. 人们在路边的圣祠礼拜。 This shrine is sacred to the Hindu god Vishnu. 这座神殿供奉印度教中的守护神毗湿奴。 a shrine dedicated to the sea goddess 供奉海洋女神的神庙 the shrine of St Cuthbert at Durham 达勒姆的圣卡思伯特圣坛
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- hallowed
- holy
- religious
- …
- build
- create
- erect
- …
- city
- room
- at a/the shrine
- shrine of
- shrine to
- …
a place that people visit because it is connected with somebody/something that is important to them 具有重要意义的地方 The singer’s grave in Paris has become a shrine. 这位歌手在巴黎的坟墓已经成为一个圣地。 - shrine for somebody
Wimbledon is a shrine for all lovers of tennis. 温布尔登是所有网球爱好者的圣地。 - shrine to somebody/something
They have turned the room into a shrine to their dead son. 他们把这个房间变成了他们死去儿子的圣地。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- hallowed
- holy
- religious
- …
- build
- create
- erect
- …
- city
- room
- at a/the shrine
- shrine of
- shrine to
- …
Word OriginOld English scrīn ‘cabinet, chest, reliquary’, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch schrijn and German Schrein, from Latin scrinium ‘chest for books’.