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.
修院是一種矛盾, 其目的是為了幸福, 其方式是犧牲.
The orphan had been reared in a convent by some good sisters.
這個孤兒在一所修道院裡被幾個好心的修女帶大.
The Spaniard a buxom widow must be either married, buried, or shut up in a convent.
按西班牙人的主張,豐乳肥臀的寡婦應該使之再婚, 或予以埋葬, 不然就關進女修道院裡去.
You were in a convent. That's where you were.
你原來象是在一所真正的修道院裡. 你就是從那兒來的.
She entered a convent.
她當了修女.