votive

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It is worth visiting Volterra for this museum alone and for just one exhibit, a bronze votive figure of a boy, extraordinarily elongated in form.
遊覽沃爾泰拉是值得的，即使僅僅爲了這個博物館，一個展覽，一個男孩許願的青銅雕像，在形式上額外的加長。
Just switch on the environmentally friendly votive, leave it in direct sunlight and -- like those solar yard spike-lights -- it continually does its thing.
衹要把開關打曏環(huán)境採光，將之置於陽光直射処（就像那些院子裡的太陽能燈一樣），它就能一直收集太陽光。
The centrepiece is a teocalli, a massive votive sculpture in the shape of a temple platform, built in 1507 to mark the end of a 52-year cycle in the Mexica calendar.
整個展覽的中心是一座古代大型祭祀神廟的雕刻，雕刻成神殿平臺之形。這座建於1507年的神廟用來標示古墨西哥歷法中52年周期的結束。

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In addition to the problem of fading devotion, electric lamps have replaced votive candles in many churches and memorial candles in many cemeteries.
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But in the darkened chapel it was so silent he could hear the faint sweet sibilance as knuckling flames consumed the wicks of the votive candles.
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offered, given, undertaken, performed or dedicated in fulfilment of or in accordance with a vow