pagan

英 [ˈpeɪɡən]

美 [ˈpeɪɡən]

n. 异教徒(信奉非主流宗教者); 教外人(旧时的基督徒用以指非基督徒)
adj. 异教徒的; 非基督教的; 无宗教信仰的

复数：pagans　

Collins.2 / BNC.10206 / COCA.12376

牛津词典

noun

异教徒（信奉非主流宗教者）
a person who holds religious beliefs that are not part of any of the world's main religions
教外人（旧时的基督徒用以指非基督徒）
used in the past by Christians to describe a person who did not believe in Christianity

异教（徒）的
Paganbeliefs and activities do not belong to any of the main religions of the world and take nature and a belief in many gods as a basis. They are older, or are believed to be older, than other religions.
N-COUNT 异教徒（旧时指不信奉基督教的人）
In former times,paganswere people who did not believe in Christianity and who many Christians considered to be inferior people.
1. The new religion was eager to convert the pagan world.
  那种新宗教急于使异教徒皈依本教。
2. ...female saints who took vows of virginity rather than submit to an undesired marriage with a pagan.
  立誓独身也不愿屈服与异教徒结婚的女圣人

noun

a person who does not acknowledge your god
Synonym:heathengentileinfidel
someone motivated by desires for sensual pleasures
Synonym:hedonistpleasure seeker
a person who follows a polytheistic or pre-Christian religion (not a Christian or Muslim or Jew)

adj

not acknowledging the God of Christianity and Judaism and Islam
Synonym:heathenheathenishethnic

Many pagan ceremonials were eventually adopted by the church.
许多异教的仪式最终被基督教采用了。
Christianity shattered the unity of the ancient, pagan world.
基督教将古代异教徒世界的统一性打得粉碎。
His mother was a Christian, his father was a pagan, and there was this conflict with them.
他母亲是基督徒，父亲不信教，因此家里有一种矛盾。
The new religion was eager to convert the pagan world.
那种新宗教急于使异教徒皈依本教。
Currently I am studying the older, pagan religions of Arcanum.
目前我正在研究奥秘中古老的异教信仰。
Pagan gods that fitted in to the old, hierarchical world with its Pharaoh would have threatened that.
而属于法老王统治的旧等级社会的异教神，则对此造成了威胁。
Some altars to pagan gods still remain.
一些敬奉异教神灵的祭坛还保留着。
He traded his sister to a pagan.
他用他的姐妹跟一个异教徒做了交易。
The Greek pagan world was not modern, and the modern Christian world is not Greek.
希腊的异教世界不是现代的，而现代的基督教世界也不是希腊的。
The singing of Christmas carols is a custom derived from early dance routines of pagan origin
唱圣诞颂歌的风俗源自异教徒早期的舞蹈仪式。