early 14c., "Lady Day," from Anglo-French anunciacioun, Old French anonciacion, from Latin annuntiationem (nominative annuntiatio), noun of action from past participle stem of annuntiare (see announce). The Church festival (March 25) commemorating the visit of the angel Gabriel to the Virgin Mary, foretelling the incarnation. General sense of "an announcing" is from 1560s. Old English for "Annunciation Day" was bodungdæg.
权威例句
1. A devotional prayer at morning, noon, and night to commemorate the annunciation.
三钟经, 天使经为纪念耶稣降世为人而在早晨, 中午和晚上进行的虔诚的祈祷.
2. The examples of its applications in annunciation and interlock circuits are listed.
作了简要介绍,并列举了在信号报警和联锁保护电路中的应用实例.
3. Then they changed it to March 25, a holiday called the Annunciation.
后来又把元旦改到我们现在的三月二十五日, 因为那一天是“天使报喜节”.
4. It is no denunciation, it's a police annunciation.
这不是公开谴责, 这是警方公告.
5. The hardware were mainly made of the SCM, CP , infrared communication interface, alarm annunciation, power supply and so on.