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become a nun
表示加入修女会，常用于宗教语境。
She decided to become a nun after college.
她大学毕业后决定成为一名修女。
修女；尼姑
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修女；尼姑
A woman who belongs to a religious community of women and takes vows, especially in the Christian church.
She decided to become a nun after college.
她大学毕业后决定成为一名修女。
英语中通常指基督教修女；也可指佛教等宗教中的女修行者。
基督教女性宗教团体成员,遵守特定誓言,通常穿修道服,尤其指天主教修道院中的修女
A member of a Christian religious community of women who live by certain vows and usually wear a habit, (Roman Catholicism, specifically) those living together in a cloister.
许多闪族字母或辅音字母表的第十四个字母(腓尼基语、阿拉姆语、希伯来语、叙利亚语、阿拉伯语等)。
The fourteenth letter of many Semitic alphabets or abjads (Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew, Syriac, Arabic and others).
修女；尼姑
a woman religious
其他宗教中类似的女性团体成员。
A member of a similar female community in other confessions.
The nun spends every morning praying in the chapel.
那位修女每天早晨都在小教堂里祈祷。
Several nuns from the convent visited the local school to teach children.
修道院的几位修女参观了当地学校，教孩子们学习。
She decided to become a nun after years of volunteering at the hospital.
在医院做了多年志愿工作后，她决定成为一名修女。
表示加入修女会，常用于宗教语境。
She decided to become a nun after college.
她大学毕业后决定成为一名修女。
指明所属修会。
She is a nun of the Benedictine order.
她是一名本笃会的修女。
常与 convent（女修道院）连用。
The nun lives in a quiet convent.
那位修女住在一座安静的修道院。
所有格形式，表示修女的物品。
The nun's habit is black and white.
修女的修女服是黑白相间的。
Not this
She decided to become a none.
Use this
She decided to become a nun.
由于 'nun' 和 'none' 发音相同，学习者容易拼错。'none' 意为 '一个也没有'，而 'nun' 是 '修女'。
Not this
There are many nun in the convent.
Use this
There are many nuns in the convent.
'nun' 是可数名词，复数形式为 'nuns'。在表达多个修女时，必须加 -s。
Focus on the distinctions below. Other candidates are kept compact until a reliable usage note is available.
天主教修女
She decided to become a Catholic nun after college.
她大学毕业后决定成为一名天主教修女。
佛教尼姑
The Buddhist nun meditates for hours each day.
这位佛教尼姑每天冥想数小时。
成为修女/尼姑
She renounced her wealth to become a nun.
她放弃财富去当了修女。
修女服
The nun's habit is simple and modest.
修女服简单朴素。
女修道院
The nuns live in a convent just outside the city.
修女们住在城外的女修道院里。
修女的誓言
She took her nun's vow of poverty and chastity.
她立下了贫穷和贞洁的修女誓言。
我是个修女！
In 'The Blues Brothers', a nun confronts the brothers with this line while wielding a ruler.
在《福禄双霸天》中，一位修女拿着尺子质问兄弟俩时说这句话。
Use nun naturally, then get feedback on meaning, tone, grammar, and phrasing.
Revisit a common error or keep this word in your review list.
发音像“none”，联想修女一无所有(none)，舍弃世俗。
宗教语境，正式或中性语域
These words all rhyme with 'nun' because they share the same stressed vowel /ʌ/ and ending /n/. Note that the spelling 'un' is pronounced /ʌn/ in these cases, but be careful: 'noun' looks similar but is pronounced /naʊn/.
Dictionary facts from ECDICT, WIKTIONARY.