a place where people come to worship because it is connected with a holy person or event 聖地；聖祠；神廟；神龛 to visit the shrine of Mecca 前往聖地麥加朝拜 - shrine to somebody/something
a shrine to the Virgin Mary 敬奉聖母馬利亞的朝聖地
Extra ExamplesTopics Religion and festivalsc1, Buildingsc1The people worshipped at wayside shrines. 人們在路邊的聖祠禮拜。 This shrine is sacred to the Hindu god Vishnu. 這座神殿供奉印度教中的守護神毗濕奴。 a shrine dedicated to the sea goddess 供奉海洋女神的神廟 the shrine of St Cuthbert at Durham 達勒姆的聖卡思伯特聖壇
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 具有重要意義的地方 The singer’s grave in Paris has become a shrine. 這位歌手在巴黎的墳墓已經成爲一個聖地。 - shrine for somebody
Wimbledon is a shrine for all lovers of tennis. 溫布爾登是所有網球愛好者的聖地。 - shrine to somebody/something
They have turned the room into a shrine to their dead son. 他們把這個房間變成了他們死去兒子的聖地。
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’.