Nunnery

(noun.) the convent of a community of nuns.

伯尼编辑

• He can't get into mischief in that little nunnery over there, and Mrs. March is doing more for him than we can. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• I shall take up my abode in a religious house near Lisle--a nunnery you would call it; there I shall be quiet and unmolested. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• In the bottom lie the ruins of a nunnery. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• For this marriage to Casaubon is as good as going to a nunnery. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• They delighted in the burning of monasteries and nunneries and the slaughter of their inmates. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.

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