音标:[ˈsækrəmənts] ;
n. (天主教的)圣事( sacrament的复数形式 ); 圣礼; 神圣的东西; 庄严的誓言
n. a formal religious ceremony conferring a specific grace on those who receive it; the two Protestant ceremonies are baptism and the Lord's Supper; in the Roman Catholic Church and the Eastern Orthodox Church there are seven traditional rites accepted as instituted by Jesus: baptism and confirmation and Holy Eucharist and penance and holy orders and matrimony and extreme unction