It is a familiar, and quintessentially Japanese ritual.
它是个熟悉而又典型的日式仪式。
Sunday lunch with the in-laws has become something of a ritual.
星期天，和姻亲们共进午餐已经成了例行的公事。
Their mating ritual is just so impersonal.
它们的求偶仪式是如此的没有人情味。
Why did theater develop, and why was it valued after it ceased to fulfill the function of ritual?
为什么戏剧会发展，以及为什么在戏剧完全脱离宗教仪式以后还有这么大的价值？
Traditional marriage has evolved from a near-universal ritual to a luxury for the educated and affluent.
传统婚姻已经从一种近乎普遍的仪式演变为受过良好教育和富裕阶层的奢侈品。
Now many specialists believe that cave paintings were not part of a ritual to bring good luck to hunters.
现在许多专家认为，洞穴壁画并不是给猎人带来好运的仪式的一部分。
Parents clap and shriek with laughter while children look on with bemused grins as the daily ritual is performed.
家长们在一旁鼓掌、尖叫，孩子们则带着困惑的笑容看着每天的仪式。
You've got to get rid of the ritual impurity, so there'll have to be some ritual procedure that purges the impurity.
你必须摆脱不纯洁的仪式，所以必须有一些手段来净化不纯洁。
School districts across the country, most recently Los Angeles Unified, are revising their thinking on this educational ritual.
全国各地的学区正在修正他们对这种教育仪式的看法，最近的一次是洛杉矶联合学区。
According to Klawans and others, ritual impurity arises from physical substances and states which are not in themselves sinful.
据克洛文和其他人所说，仪式上的不洁产生于物质和状态，它们本身并不有罪。
Although origin in ritual has long been the most popular, it is by no means the only theory about how the theater came into being.
尽管戏剧起源于宗教仪式的说法目前是最被大众认可的，但这并非戏剧起源的唯一定论。
Parts of the ceremony involve ritual hair cutting, tying cotton threads soaked in holy water around the bride's and groom's wrists.
仪式的一部分包括仪式剪发，在新郎和新娘的手腕上绑浸在圣水里的棉线。
According to Klawans, ritual purification involved separation from those aspects of humanity, death and sex, which are least God-like.
根据克洛文的理解，仪式的净化包括从人性、死亡和性的那些方面分离出来，这些方面与上帝最不相似。
My impatience with the customs ritual indicated that Chloe, who I had not known existed a few hours ago, had already acquired the status of a craving.
我对海关例行公事的不耐烦暗示着，几小时前我还不知道存在的克洛艾，已经产生了渴望的状态。
The word religion is derived from the Latin noun religio, which denotes both earnest observance of ritual obligations and an inward spirit of reverence.
宗教一词源自拉丁语宗教名词，它既表示认真遵守仪式义务，又表示内向的崇敬精神。
Although church ritual had sustained an interest in timekeeping throughout the centuries of urban collapse that followed the fall of Rome, church time was nature's time.
尽管在罗马帝国灭亡后的城市崩溃的几个世纪里，教堂的仪式一直保持着人们对计时的兴趣，但教堂的时间是自然的时间。
The most widely accepted theory, championed by anthropologists in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, envisions theater as emerging out of myth and ritual.
19世纪末和20世纪初的人类学家们拥护的最广为接受的理论认为，戏剧起源于神话和宗教仪式。
It made sense to show the statue looking ahead at what was happening in front of it, so that the living performer of the ritual could interact with the divine or deceased recipient.
让雕像朝前看、并能观看到前方发生的事情是有意义的，这样，现场的仪式表演者就可以与受膜拜的神灵或逝去的人们互动。
She objects to the ritual of organized religion.
她反对有组织宗教的仪规。
The whole Italian culture revolves around the ritual of eating.
整个意大利文化是围绕着饮食习俗的。
I realized that here the conventions required me to make the ritual noises.
我意识到这里的习俗要求我得说套话。
The ritual of the party conference is acted out in the same way every year.
该党的大会程序年年照行如仪。
Set up a bedtime ritual by taking a warm bath or shower, reading a book or listening to soft music.
养成睡前习惯，泡个热水浴或洗个热水澡，读本书或听轻音乐。
Those who knew the secrets of making iron gained ritual and sometimes political power.
那些掌握了制铁技术的人们常可获得宗教权利，有时候获得政治权力。
The coffee ritual is incomplete without a delicious pastry or a slice of chocolate cake.
美味的油酥点心或一块巧克力蛋糕在喝咖啡时也是必不可少的。
They are perhaps more at home in folk songs, in popular tales and the ritual dramas of films.
他们可能更熟悉民歌、流行故事和电影中的宗教仪式。
They were designed to be put in places where these beings could manifest themselves in order to be the recipients of ritual actions.
它们被设计出来是为了放置在一些地方，神灵会在那里显灵，成为宗教活动的受祭者。
The baccalauréat exam season approaches, and with it ritual agonising over the standard of French spelling.
法国高考日益临近，随之而来的是学生的法语拼写水平令人忧心忡忡。
Create a relaxing bedtime ritual.
创造一个放松的就寝仪式。
Create a ritual around this goal.
为目标创造一种仪式。
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