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secular

adjective
 
🔊/ˈsekjələ(r)/
🔊/ˈsekjələr/
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  1.  
    not connected with spiritual or religious matters现世的；世俗的；非宗教的
    • secular music世俗音乐
    • We live in a largely secular society.我们生活在一个主流世俗化的社会里。
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    • completely
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    • purely
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  2. (of priests司祭) living among ordinary people rather than in a religious community教区的；在俗的
    3. Word OriginMiddle English from Old French seculer, from Latin saecularis, from saeculum ‘generation, age’, used in Christian Latin to mean ‘the world’ (as opposed to the Church).