sanctifies

英 [ˈsæŋktɪfaɪz]

美 [ˈsæŋktɪfaɪz]

v.  使神圣化; 使正当化; 使合法化; 批准; 认可
sanctify的第三人称单数

柯林斯词典

• VERB (牧师、神职人员)认可，批准，使神圣化
  If somethingis sanctifiedby a priest or other holy person, the priest or holy person officially approves of it, or declares it to be holy.
  1. She is trying to make amends for her marriage not being sanctified.
     她正努力弥补自己那段未受牧师认可的婚姻。
• VERB 批准;认可;使受尊敬;使固定不变
  If an organization or eventsanctifiessomething, it makes it approved of and respected, or unable to be changed.
  1. ...a law that sanctifies changes that have already occurred.
     认可已发生变化的一项法律

双语例句

• Whatever we make of it, today competition dominates our ideology, shapes our cultural attitudes, and sanctifies our market economy as never before.
  不管我们如何看待，今天的竞争支配着我们的意识形态，左右我们的文化心态，而且史无前例地神化我们的市场经济。
• Heb. 2:11 For both He who sanctifies and those who are being sanctified are all of One, for which cause He is not ashamed to call them brothers.
  来二11因那圣别人的，和那些被圣别的，都是出于一；因这缘故，他称他们为弟兄，并不以为耻，说。
• Whose image sanctifies the game?
  是谁的形象把赌博神圣化了？
• Heb. 9:13 For if the blood of goats and bulls and the ashes of a heifer sprinkling those who are defiled sanctifies to the purity of the flesh.
  来九13若山羊和公牛的血，并母牛犊的灰，洒在污秽的人身上，尚且使人圣别，以致人的肉身得著洁净。
• It consists of mentally putting one's self on the altar, and then mentally saying the altar sanctifies the gift, and then logically concluding therefore one is sanctified;
  这种人在心理上把自己放在祭坛上，然后在内心中认为祭坛能使祭物成圣，因此又在逻辑上断定他已成圣。
• Irony and pity are both of good counsel; the first with her smiles makes life agreeable; the other sanctifies it with her tears.
  讽刺和怜悯都是我们的良师益友；前者以她的微笑使人生愉悦；后者则以她的眼泪使人生化为圣洁。