1.(女)修道院
1.a building where a community of nuns (=women members of a religious organization) live and work
1.She WAS home from convent boarding school and WAS excitedly looking forward to her gifts next day, which I had already purchased.
她从女修道院办的寄宿学校回来了，十分激动地等着第二天的礼物，那是我早就买好了的。
2.She had a rich friend, a comrade of her convent days, whom she did not want to go and see any more, so much did she suffer as she came away.
她有一个有钱的女朋友，一个在教会女学里的女同学，可是现在已经不再想去看她，因为看了之后回来，她总会感到痛苦。
3.Her dress was both aged and childish, like the dress of the scholars in a convent; it consisted of a badly cut gown of black merino.
她的打扮是修道院里寄读生的那种派头，既象老妇人，又象小孩，穿一件不合身的黑色粗呢裙袍。
4.In 1948 she was granted permission to leave her post at the convent and begin a ministry among the sick.
她在1948年被允许离开她在女修道院的职位开始在病人中间提供服务。
5.But even without any sort of view, the convent seems a nice spot to be a nun.
不过，即使没有任何景观，这个修道院看来还是尼姑的好去处。
6.I always feel as if I were in the convent again--or on the stage, before a dreadfully polite audience that never applauds.
我老觉得仿佛又进了修道院——或者上了舞台，面对着一群彬彬有礼却决不会鼓掌的可怕观众。
7.She moved into the convent after his death, staying there for the last four years of her life.
丈夫去世后，格拉尔迪尼搬到修道院居住，在那里度过了生命的最后四年时光。
8.The excavation team revealed over the weekend that it had found a crypt after a two-week search at an abandoned convent in Florence.
挖掘队伍上周末公布，经过近半月的搜寻，他们发现了葬在废弃的佛罗伦萨修道院内这具骸骨。
9.She could not go, she said, because there would be a retreat that week in her convent.
她说她不能去，因为那周女修道院有一次静修。
10.They argued back and forth for a few minutes. Finally the priest agreed to let them leave the convent for the weekend.
他们争执了一番，最后牧师同意她们离开修道院度周末。