ordain

英 [??'de?n] 美 [??r'de?n]

vt.任命；授以圣職；命令；注定 vi.頒發(fā)命令

?詞源

“Ordain”源自拉丁語“ordinare”，意為“安排”或“命令”，由“ordo”（秩序、序列）衍生。12世紀(jì)經(jīng)古法語“ordener”進(jìn)入英語，最初指宗教任命（如授圣職），后擴(kuò)展為規(guī)定、命運(yùn)安排等含義。演變路徑：拉丁語 ordinare → 古法語 ordener → 中古英語 ordainen（約12世紀(jì)）。

?外刊例句

·The Guardian, March 2023

She was ordained as a priest last year.

她去年被任命為牧師。

·The New York Times, June 2024

Fate seemed to ordain their meeting.

命運(yùn)似乎注定了他們的相遇。

·BBC News, August 2025

The law ordains strict penalties.

法律規(guī)定了嚴(yán)厲的懲罰。

?經(jīng)典名著

·William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet (1597)

Heaven ordained their tragic love.

上天注定了他們的悲劇愛情。

·John Milton, Paradise Lost (1667)

God ordained man’s free will.

上帝賦予了人類自由意志。

·Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice (1813)

Society ordained strict rules for her.

社會為她規(guī)定了嚴(yán)格的規(guī)則。

?Usage Examples

(1) He was an ordained priest.

(2) She was ordained the first woman priest of her church.

(3) The emperor ordained that all foreigners be expelled.

(4) The judge ordained that he should pay the debts.

(5) Fate had ordained that he should die in poverty.

(1) 他被委任為牧師。

(2) 她被委任為她教會的第一位女牧師。

(3) 皇帝下令將所有外國人驅(qū)逐出境。

(4) 法院判決由他償還債務(wù)。

(5) 命中注定他得死于貧困。

?Usage Notes

An ordained minister is one who's been appointed to the job by a special church authority. If you've ever had to sit through a lecture about the evils of too much TV, you know that a person doesn't need to be ordained in order to preach.

When you say that people have been ordained, you usually mean that they've been invested with special powers. After a priest has been ordained in the Catholic church, he can perform sacraments. Such priests are higher up in the church hierarchy than others, and those below them can be called their “subordinates,” a word also related to ordain.

?柯林斯詞典

1. [VERB 動詞]授予…圣職；任命…為神職人員 When someone is ordained, they are made a member of the clergy in a religious ceremony. [be V-ed n] [be V-ed] [V n] [V n as n] [V n to n] [V-ed]

He was ordained a Catholic priest in 1982...

他于1982年被任命為天主教司鐸。

Women have been ordained for many years in the Church of Scotland...

蘇格蘭長老會多年前就已開始任命女性擔(dān)任圣職。

He ordained his own priests, and threatened to ordain bishops...

他自行任命了牧師，還揚(yáng)言要任命主教。

The church's ruling body voted to ordain women as priests.

該教會的管理機(jī)構(gòu)投票通過接納女性為牧師。

...plans to ordain women to the priesthood...

任命女性為牧師的計(jì)劃

He became a fully ordained monk at the age of 20.

他在20歲的時候成了正式的修道士。

2. [VERB 動詞]規(guī)定；決定；主宰 If some authority or power ordains something, they decide that it should happen or be in existence. [V that] [be V-ed] [V n] [FORMAL 正式]

Destiny has ordained that they are who they are...

命運(yùn)已經(jīng)決定了他們的性格為人。

His rule was ordained by heaven...

他的統(tǒng)治乃是天命。

The recession may already be severe enough to ordain structural change.

這次經(jīng)濟(jì)衰退可能已經(jīng)嚴(yán)重到必須進(jìn)行體制變革的地步了。