Teaching is one of the holiest tasks.

教书是最神圣的工作之一。

A city of western Saudi Arabia near the coast of the Red Sea.The birthplace of Mohammed,it is the holiest city of Islam and a pilgrimage site for all devout believers of the faith.Population,550,000.

麦加沙特阿拉伯西部城市,位于红海沿岸。它是伊斯兰教创始人穆罕默德的诞生地,是伊斯兰教最神圣之地,也是笃信伊斯兰教的虔诚教徒的朝拜中心。人口550,

Mecca is the holiest city, to which Muslims try to go on pilgrimage

麦加是最神圣的城市,穆斯林们都力图去那里朝圣。

||1:But most practices are shaped by religious beliefs and a faith in the afterlife.||2:The Chinese keep shrines to the dead in their homes, and burn paper offerings to encourage the spirits to bestow good fortune on the living.||3:Communities from Chile to Egypt to Sicily have mummified their dead to preserve the body for the afterlife.||4:Ms Murray visits some particularly ghoulish mummies, dressed but withered, in the Capuchin Catacombs of Palermo.||5:For Hindus, though, the body is just a vehicle for the soul.||6:In India the dying make pilgrimages to sacred sites, such as Varanasi, to be cremated and released into the River Ganges, India’s holiest waterway.||7:This is so the dead can achieve moksha—breaking the cycle of birth, death and rebirth to gain enlightenment.||8:The cremation ghats in Varanasi burn day and night.

||1:但是大多数风俗习惯深受宗教信仰和来世之说的影响。||2:中国将神龛保存在逝者的家中，而且烧纸糊的祭品，祈求逝者的灵魂可以保佑生者。||3:像智利、埃及，还有西西里（意大利），那里的人们都会将死者做成木乃伊，为来世保存好躯体。||4:Murray女士在巴勒莫（意大利）嘉布遣会修士陵墓里参观过一些特别恐怖的木乃伊。||5:他们穿戴整齐，但是干瘪枯槁。||6:对于印度人来说，躯体只是灵魂的载体。在印度，死亡就是前往圣地（像瓦腊纳西）的远游，火化后将骨灰撒在印度最神圣的水上航道——恒河中。||7:这样逝者即可得以解脱——超脱生而死，死而再生的轮回，获得开悟。||8:在瓦腊纳西，火葬的河岸石梯上日夜都在焚烧着尸体。

||1:On Thursday, Saudi Arabia announced a temporary ban on foreigners from entering the country to visit Islam’s holiest places.||2:Saudi officials said the move is meant to slow the spread of the virus.||3:The decision has affected thousands of Muslims already traveling to the country.||4:It also could have an effect on millions more with plans during the holy month of Ramadan and the hajj.

||1:周四，沙特宣布临时禁止外国人进入该国访问伊斯兰教圣地。||2:沙特官员表示，此举意在减缓病毒的传播。||3:该决定影响到了已经前往该国的数千名穆斯林。||4:它还可能会给计划在斋月期间前往麦加朝圣的数百万人造成影响。

and that when women go round the Kaaba, Islam’s holiest place, they show their face.

而且当女性绕行克尔白（位于麦加的伊斯兰教最为神圣的朝圣场所）时可露出其面容。

Millions of Muslims are now setting out to take part in this year’s haj, a trek to Islam’s holiest site, in Saudi Arabia.

几百万穆斯林现正开始了艰苦跋涉，去沙特阿拉伯的伊斯兰圣地麦加朝圣。

It is the biggest oil exporter, and home to Islam’s two holiest sites.

沙特阿拉伯是最大的石油出口国，也是伊斯兰教两大圣地所在地。

"The people who work in Department S are the holiest of the holy, " he told Interfax news agency.

“效力于S处的人都是最忠诚的人，”他对国际文传电讯社（Interfax）表示。

Mr Abbas mooted the possibility of an international committee to oversee the city’s holiest sites.

阿巴斯（MrAbbas）提出由一个国际性的委员会来监督城市中的最神圣场所。

By the time the Ganges reaches Varanasi, India’s holiest city, the river has been somewhat restored by several tributaries.

当恒河流经印度最神圣的城市瓦拉纳西的时候，河水或多或少的被一些支流修复了。

The fourth holiest city of Islam, Harar has 82 mosques within its 16th-century walls.

哈拉作为伊斯兰教的第四大圣城，在它16世纪的城墙里面有82座清真寺。

What was holiest and mightiest of all that the world has yet owned has bled to death under our knives: who will wipe this blood off us?

世上最神圣、最强大者在我们刀下流血而死：谁能将我们身上的血擦干？

As a matter of fact the holiest of men have been some of the shrewdest, for their friends at least, if not for themselves.

事实上，最神圣的的人群某种意义上又是最精明的，如果不为自身，至少为他们的朋友。

For two days it barred monks from the golden Shwedagon Pagoda in Yangon, the country’s holiest shrine.

他们曾封锁和尚不准进入仰光大金塔的，这是该国最神圣的所在。

Some Orthodox monks visited Czestochowa, Poland’s holiest Catholic shrine, last year.

一些东正教士去年访问了波最神圣的基督教圣地琴斯托霍瓦。

Islam’s holiest shrine

伊斯兰教最神圣的圣地

The Armenian procession was just one of several that celebrated Easter Services in one of Christianity’s holiest sites on Sunday.

在星期天亚美尼亚的游行只是庆祝基督教最神圣的节日之一复活节的的庆祝活动中的一项。

The reputed head of John the Baptist is the holiest object in the Umayyad mosque in Damascus, venerated by Christians and Muslims alike.

著名的施洗者圣约翰的头是倭马亚清真寺最神圣的物品，受到基督徒和穆斯林的一致尊敬。