1743, from Zoroaster, from Latin Zoroastres, from Old Persian Zarathushtra, 6c. or 7c. B.C.E. Persian religious teacher. The name appears to be literally "whose camels are old," from *zarant "old" (cognate with Greek geron, genitive gerontos "old;" see gerontology) + ushtra "camel." As a noun from 1811.
权威例句
1. He claims that some Zoroastrian ideas influenced on Christian thinking.
他声称一些琐罗亚斯德教的思想影响着基督教.
2. Other religious groups include Christianity, Sikhism, Jainism, Buddhist and Zoroastrian.
其他的宗教团体包括了基督教 、 锡克教 、 耆那教 、 佛教和祆教.
3. But in the Zoroastrian faith, Ahura Mazda is abstract and transcendent.
但在琐罗亚斯德教的信仰里面, 阿胡玛兹达是抽象和超然的.
4. Zoroastrian were forced to flee into the desert.
琐罗亚斯德教教徒被迫逃入沙漠.
5. He met with increasing hostility from the Zoroastrian priests and was finally executed for heresy.