Temple of Heaven

专有名词
中文释义

英文释义

专有名词
  1. A religious complex in southeastern Beijing, formerly important to Chinese imperial rituals; the present-day park surrounding and preserving the site.
    — Jonah Byrde: Y'know, in third grade, we learned about the Temple of Heaven in Beijing. There are like 600 acres and on the grounds there's this building called the Hall for Prayer for Good Harvests. It's circled by this thing called the Echo Wall. Wendy Byrde: Ok, ok. Jonah Byrde: You can go there and even when people are whispering you just hear the same things repeated over and over and over. Wendy Byrde: Ok, enough. You wanna be a smartass? You want to hate me? Fine.
  2. The Hall of Prayer for Good Harvests, the largest building in the complex, commonly confused as its focus. proscribed

词形变化

the Temple of Heaven canonical

词汇关系

近义词
Altar of Heaven Tiantan Tien-tan T'ien-t'an Tian Tan
并列词
Temple of the Sun Temple of the Moon Temple of the Earth

词源

Calque of Chinese 天壇 /天坛 (Tiāntán, literally “Altar of Heaven”).
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