take the veil

动词 v.

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To retire into a convent and live as a nun. idiomatic
    — “[…] I shall devote myself for a time to the examination of the Roman Catholic dogmas, and to a careful study of the workings of their system: if I find it to be, as I half suspect it is, the one best calculated to ensure the doing of all things decently and in order, I shall embrace the tenets of Rome and probably take the veil.”

词形变化

takes the veil present,singular,third-person taking the veil participle,present took the veil past taken the veil participle,past
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