They even used cacao seeds as a form of money to pay taxes or give as holy offerings to the gods.

VOA: special.2010.02.17

Purity, which is the absence of impurity, is a prerequisite for access to the holy or for holy status.

纯洁，不纯的反义词，是接近神圣或达到神圣状态的先决条件。

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Their observance protects the holy object from profanation, from being profaned, reverting from holy status back to common status.

它们按照惯例保护着神圣的东西不受亵渎，不受玷污，不让它们重新回归世俗。

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He was speaking to guests at an iftar dinner at the White House celebrating the holy month of Ramadan.

VOA: special.2010.08.21

He's covering his head in a traditional religious fashion, so in order to enter this holy place he covers his head.

他以一种传统的宗教方式包裹他的头，为了进入那个神圣的地方而包裹头。

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Toledo was a holy city for both the Roman Catholics and the Muslim Moors of Spain.

VOA: special.2010.02.14

Things can't become holy and can't come into contact with the holy or the sacred if they are not first pure.

事物不可能变得神圣或是与神圣有联系,如果它们连纯洁都算不上。

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As the cloud rises, Mister Oppenheimer remembers words from the Hindu holy book, the Baghavad Gita.

VOA: special.2009.06.14

To enter the realm of the holy, in which there is neither death nor procreation, requires a separation from death and procreation.

为了进入神圣的界域，那里没有死亡或生殖，你需要和死亡一击生殖隔离开。

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The Israeli environmental organization Zalul has appealed to the pope and other world leaders to help save what it calls the "world's most holy river."

VOA: special.2009.05.18

The typewriter is holy! the poem is holy the voice is holy the hearers are holy the ecstasy is holy!

打字机神圣，诗歌神圣，嗓音神圣,听者神圣入迷神圣！

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She also edited a book about people considered holy by the Roman Catholic Church.

VOA: special.2010.08.08

if an impure object comes in contact with a holy object, ; then the holy object is immediately defiled; it's immediately rendered impure.

如果一个不纯洁的事物与一个纯洁的事物有联系，那么这个纯洁的东西就会马上被玷污;,马上变成不纯洁的。

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An ancient city called Philadelphia was also noted in Christianity's holy book, the Bible.

VOA: special.2010.04.04

I think that the same chapter that I quoted to you of the holy Koran talks about human beings being Abus and Khalifah of God on earth.

我向你引述的,《可兰经》的同一章谈到了人类,是上帝在地球上的阿布和哈里发。

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In those days, religious workers cared for sick travelers at shelters near holy places.

VOA: special.2010.05.04

It is association with death and sexuality that renders one impure and disqualifies one from entering the holy sanctuary.

不洁的事物和死亡与生殖是有联系的,它们被取消了,进入圣所的资格。

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It was released last month. Here Ayiesha Woods performs "O Holy Night."

VOA: special.2009.12.25

It simply means that one cannot enter the holy sanctuary, God's realm, when impure through contact with death or sexuality.

这就意味着如果和死亡或者性有关，人就不能进入圣所，上帝的领域。

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All of them face east toward the Muslim holy city of Mecca.

VOA: special.2010.04.14

But the introduction, "You shall be holy for I the Lord your God am holy"--being holy in imitation of God is emphasized repeatedly as the purpose of the laws in the Holiness Code especially.

你们要圣洁，因为我耶和华你们的神是圣洁的“,这一引言就是教导人们要效仿上帝保持圣洁,作为法律的目的它被反复强调，特别是在圣洁法典里。

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Abraham Lincoln then placed his hand on the Christian holy book,the Bible.

VOA: special.2009.07.30

The second half of verse 5 and 6 gives the reward: God is conferring on the Israelites this elevated status ; of royalty, of priesthood; "You'll be to me a kingdom of priests, and a holy nation."

诗5余下的部分和诗6，说明了遵守的奖赏：,上帝将会使犹太人的地位提升,忠诚的，祭司的国家;,“你们要归我作祭司的国度，为圣洁的国家“

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Swans were holy to Apollo, the god of poetry and song.

VOA: special.2010.04.11

The backmost square-shaped chamber of that inner shrine was the inner sanctum or the holy of holies.

神殿最后面的正方形的空间,是内圣所或者说，最神圣的地方。

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There are also non-Christian holy days around this time of year.

VOA: special.2011.04.22

They might have lots and lots of holy writings, but they don't have a particular, bounded body of writings that they call scripture.

他们可能有很多神圣的述著，但他们没有一部特定的，书写成卷的圣典。

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They also show stories from the Christian holy book, the Bible.

VOA: special.2010.02.03

So on the seventh day, God rested from his labors And for this reason he blessed the seventh day and declared it "holy."

在第七天，上帝从劳作中歇息,为此他赐福于第七天，称它为“神圣的“

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And you may not eat animal flesh that has the lifeblood in it because the blood is the life and that belongs to God, that's holy, right?

也不能生吃带着血的动物生肉,因为血液是活的，它属于上帝，它是神圣的，不是吗？

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