noun🔗Share天主经，主祷文 The Lord's prayer, especially in a Roman Catholic context."During Catholic Mass, we recite the paternoster together as a congregation. "在天主教弥撒中，我们全体教友一起诵念天主经/主祷文。religiontheologyChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun🔗Share循环升降机， 往复式升降机 A slow, continuously moving lift or elevator consisting of a loop of open-fronted cabins running the height of a building."The old office building still had a paternoster, allowing employees to hop on and off the slowly moving cabins as they traveled between floors. "这栋老办公楼里仍然有循环升降机，员工可以在楼层间穿梭时，随时跳上或跳下这些缓慢移动的开放式厢体。architecturebuildingmachinetechnologyChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun🔗Share念珠状饰，圆珠饰。 A bead-like ornament in mouldings."The picture frame had a row of small, round beads, or a paternoster, decorating its inner edge. "这个相框内边缘装饰着一排小圆珠，像是念珠状饰。architectureartChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun🔗Share钓组，串钩钓组 A tackle rig with a heavy sinker at the end of the line, and one or more hooks on traces at right angles spaced above the sinker."The fisherman cast his line, hoping the paternoster would carry his bait down to where the fish were feeding deep below. "渔夫抛出了钓线，希望这个串钩钓组能把鱼饵带到水底深处，那里鱼儿正在觅食。technicalnauticalfishsportitemChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun🔗Share念珠， 玫瑰念珠 A string of beads used in counting prayers that are said; a rosary."My grandmother used her paternoster to count her prayers before bed. "我的祖母睡前用她的玫瑰念珠来数她念诵的祈祷文。religionritualChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun🔗Share大珠，念珠。 Every eleventh bead in a rosary, at which, while counting the beads, the Lord's Prayer is to be repeated."While praying the rosary, she paused at each paternoster to recite the Lord's Prayer. "她念诵玫瑰经的时候，每当捻到一粒大珠，也就是念珠中每隔十颗出现的那颗珠子，她都会停下来诵念一遍《天主经》。religionritualChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun🔗Share念珠匠，祷告珠工匠。 A medieval artisan who crafted rosary beads or prayer nuts."Old Thomas, the village's paternoster, spent his days carefully shaping wooden beads for the church's rosaries. "老托马斯，作为村里的念珠匠，每天都精心雕琢木珠，用来制作教堂里的念珠。religionjobhistorytraditionpersonChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun🔗Share万灵药，包治百病的药。 A patent medicine, so named because salesmen would pray the Lord's Prayer over it before selling it."Back then, traveling salesmen often hawked their questionable remedies, hoping to boost sales by calling each product a "paternoster" and reciting prayers over them before offering them to gullible customers. "那时候，流动商贩经常兜售来路不明的药物，为了提高销量，他们会把每种产品都叫做“万灵药” (wàn líng yào) ，并在向容易上当的顾客推销之前，对着药物念诵祷文。medicinereligionbusinesshistoryChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb🔗SharePinyin: Paternoster式钓鱼，垂直钓鱼。 To try to catch (fish, etc.) with a paternoster rig."My grandpa loves to paternoster for perch in the lake behind his house, using a rig with several small hooks. "我爷爷喜欢在他家后面的湖里用串钩钓鲈鱼，他的串钩上有好几个小鱼钩。fishsportnauticalactionChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
