名詞 anathema:

1. a detested person
   同義詞：bete noire
2. a formal ecclesiastical curse accompanied by excommunication

1. A censure, ban, or anathema.
   責備，譴責，詛咒
2. But above all, if he has St. Paul's perfection, that he would wish to be anathema from Christ, for the salvation of his brethren, it shows much of a divine nature, and a kind of conformity with Christ himself.
   最后，如果一個人竟能像《圣經(jīng)》中的圣保羅那樣，肯為了兄弟們的得救甚至甘于忍受神的詛咒; 那么他就必定超越了凡人，而且有真正基督徒的品格了。

a.nath.e.ma

n.（名詞）
【復數(shù)】 a.nath.e.mas
A formal ecclesiastical ban, curse, or excommunication.
逐出教門：正式的宗教禁令、詛咒或逐出教門
A vehement denunciation; a curse:
強烈的譴責；詛咒：
例句：
.the sound of a witch`s anathemas in some unknown tongue.(Nathaniel Hawthorne)
.女巫詛咒的聲音不知從哪里傳過來.(納撒尼爾·霍索恩)

One that is cursed or damned.
被咒罵者，被詛咒者
One that is greatly reviled, loathed, or shunned.
被污辱者，被憎恨者，被疏遠者

來源：
Late Latin [an accursed thing]
后期拉丁語 [被詛咒的事物]
from Greek anathôma
源自 希臘語 anathôma
from anatithenai [to dedicate]
源自 anatithenai [貢獻，奉獻]
ana- [ana-]
ana- [前綴，表示.向后.]
tithenai [to put] * see dhô-
tithenai [加，放] *參見 dhô-