consecration

基本解釋

What we did had a consecration of its own.
我們的所作所為其本身是一種神圣的貢獻(xiàn)。
It showed the 82-year-old former president of Cuba looking frail but alert at the consecration of an Orthodox cathedral in Havana on October 20th.
照片顯示，這位82歲高齡的前古巴領(lǐng)導(dǎo)人略顯虛弱，但依然警醒。這張照片攝于10月20日哈瓦那的一座東正教教堂，當(dāng)時這位前領(lǐng)導(dǎo)人正在參加教會的獻(xiàn)祭儀式。
This act of personal surrender is called many things: consecration, making Jesus Lord, taking up your cross, dying to self, yielding to the Spirit.
這種個人的交出行為稱為很多事情：獻(xiàn)祭、活在主耶穌里，背起你的十字架、舍棄自我、屈服于圣靈。

It's a kind of consecration, if you will, of a year of diplomacy of Condoleezza Rice.
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On September 11, 2011, the consecration of Ground Zero will finally take place.
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the part of the Mass after the sermon during which the bread and wine are believed to change into the Body and Blood of Christ ,