Although origin in ritual has long been the most popular, it is by no means the only theory about how the theater came into being.(尽管戏剧起源于宗教仪式的说法目前是最被大众认可的,但这并非戏剧起源的唯一定论。)
Now many specialists believe that cave paintings were not part of a ritual to bring good luck to hunters.(现在许多专家认为,洞穴壁画并不是给猎人带来好运的仪式的一部分。)
Create a ritual around this goal.(为目标创造一种仪式。)
The word religion is derived from the Latin noun religio, which denotes both earnest observance of ritual obligations and an inward spirit of reverence.(宗教一词源自拉丁语宗教名词,它既表示认真遵守仪式义务,又表示内向的崇敬精神。)
My impatience with the customs ritual indicated that Chloe, who I had not known existed a few hours ago, had already acquired the status of a craving.(我对海关例行公事的不耐烦暗示着,几小时前我还不知道存在的克洛艾,已经产生了渴望的状态。)
According to Klawans, ritual purification involved separation from those aspects of humanity, death and sex, which are least God-like.(根据克洛文的理解,仪式的净化包括从人性、死亡和性的那些方面分离出来,这些方面与上帝最不相似。)
School districts across the country, most recently Los Angeles Unified, are revising their thinking on this educational ritual.(全国各地的学区正在修正他们对这种教育仪式的看法,最近的一次是洛杉矶联合学区。)
I realized that here the conventions required me to make the ritual noises.(我意识到这里的习俗要求我得说套话。)
The most widely accepted theory, championed by anthropologists in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, envisions theater as emerging out of myth and ritual.(19世纪末和20世纪初的人类学家们拥护的最广为接受的理论认为,戏剧起源于神话和宗教仪式。)
You've got to get rid of the ritual impurity, so there'll have to be some ritual procedure that purges the impurity.(你必须摆脱不纯洁的仪式,所以必须有一些手段来净化不纯洁。)