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Learner's definition of CANON
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formal : an accepted rule or guide about how people should behave or about how something should be done准则;标准;原则 -
Anyone who violates every canon of decency as she has done should be dismissed immediately.像她这样违反了所有道德准则的人应该立即被开除。
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the canons of good taste高品位的标准
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By the canons of science, the experiment was not valid.根据科学标准,这个实验是无效的。
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a : a group of books, poems, plays, etc., that are traditionally considered to be very important经典;精品集 b : the group of books, poems, plays, etc., that a particular author is known to have written(某作家的)作品集 c : a list of books that are considered to be part of a religion's official text宗教经典书目 3
: a piece of music in which the same melody is started at different times by each of the different groups of voices or instruments轮唱;轮奏;卡农曲
2 canon /ˈkænən/ noun
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: a Christian priest who works in a cathedral(基督教)大教堂教士