sanctity

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Temples have an air of sanctity.
寺廟有一種神圣的氛圍。
He defended until death, or non-publication, the sanctity of his words.
他至死都捍衛(wèi)著他文字的神圣，寧可作品不獲出版。
I know this has gone all partisan in Washington, although for what reason, I cannot comprehend, as the sanctity of the nation's credit rating should be a bipartisan issue.
我知道，這個問題在華盛頓已經(jīng)成為一個黨派之爭，盡管我不能理解是出于什么原因維護國家信用評級這一神圣的職責(zé)會成為一個黨派問題。

"Marriage by universal moral codes that have been held for thousands of year by virtually every culture reserves the sanctity of a sexual relationship as between a man and a woman and that's just the fact we are architecturally built that way we're biochemically built that way, we're designed that way for pocreation."
Other cultures focused more on an ethics of divinity where notions such as purity, sanctity, pollution and sin are relevant.
還有的文化則重于神性道德,他們的道德則與純結(jié)，神圣，褻瀆，罪孽等有關(guān)。
耶魯公開課 - 心理學(xué)導(dǎo)論課程節(jié)選
The priestly texts in Leviticus and Numbers emphasize the sanctity of all life and the ideal of holiness and ethical and ritual purity.
利未記》和《民數(shù)記》里強調(diào)了,所有生命的神圣性及,倫理和宗教儀式的純粹性。
耶魯公開課 - 舊約導(dǎo)論課程節(jié)選

Catholic institutions are making a principled stand for what they see as the sanctity of life.
ECONOMIST: Lexington

If you talk about the sanctity of something, you mean that it is very important and must be treated with respect.