convent
n. 女修道院
A convent is a building in which a community of nuns live.
A convent is the same as a convent school .
1. a religious residence especially for nuns
2. a community of people in a religious order (especially nuns) living together
A convent is a contradiction. Its object , salvation; its means thereto, sacrifice.
修院是一种矛盾, 其目的是为了幸福, 其方式是牺牲.
The orphan had been reared in a convent by some good sisters.
这个孤儿在一所修道院里被几个好心的修女带大.
The Spaniard a buxom widow must be either married, buried, or shut up in a convent.
按西班牙人的主张,丰乳肥臀的寡妇应该使之再婚, 或予以埋葬, 不然就关进女修道院里去.
You were in a convent. That's where you were.
你原来象是在一所真正的修道院里. 你就是从那儿来的.
She entered a convent.
她当了修女.