votive

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It is worth visiting Volterra for this museum alone and for just one exhibit, a bronze votive figure of a boy, extraordinarily elongated in form.
游覽沃爾泰拉是值得的，即使僅僅為了這個博物館，一個展覽，一個男孩許愿的青銅雕像，在形式上額外的加長。
Just switch on the environmentally friendly votive, leave it in direct sunlight and -- like those solar yard spike-lights -- it continually does its thing.
只要把開關(guān)打向環(huán)境采光，將之置于陽光直射處（就像那些院子里的太陽能燈一樣），它就能一直收集太陽光。
The centrepiece is a teocalli, a massive votive sculpture in the shape of a temple platform, built in 1507 to mark the end of a 52-year cycle in the Mexica calendar.
整個展覽的中心是一座古代大型祭祀神廟的雕刻，雕刻成神殿平臺之形。這座建于1507年的神廟用來標(biāo)示古墨西哥歷法中52年周期的結(jié)束。

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But in the darkened chapel it was so silent he could hear the faint sweet sibilance as knuckling flames consumed the wicks of the votive candles.
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offered, given, undertaken, performed or dedicated in fulfilment of or in accordance with a vow