mid-15c., from Middle French monastique "monkish, monastic," or directly from Late Latin monasticus, from Ecclesiastical Greek monastikos "solitary, pertaining to a monk," from Greek monazein "to live alone" (see monastery). Related: Monastical (c. 1400).
权威例句
1. He was drawn to the monastic life.
他已进入寺院修行。
2. He lives a life of monastic simplicity.
他过着修道士般的简朴生活.
3. The second, about actual part of monastic in Sui and Tang dynasty.
其次, 关于隋唐时期的僧尼的实际角色.
4. Again, about part conflict of monastic in Sui and Tang dynasty.
再次, 关于隋唐时期的僧尼角色冲突.
5. His disciplined devotion to tennis late in his career was almost monastic.