sanctuary

• n.避難所；至聖所；エルサレムの神殿。

sanct-、神聖な、-ary、場所。すなわち、聖域、寺院、ひいては関連語。

sanctuary (n.)

early 14c., "building set apart for holy worship," from Anglo-French sentuarie, Old French saintuaire "sacred relic, holy thing; reliquary, sanctuary," from Late Latin sanctuarium "a sacred place, shrine" (especially the Hebrew Holy of Holies; see sanctum), also "a private room," from Latin sanctus "holy" (see saint (n.)).

Since the time of Constantine and by medieval Church law, fugitives or debtors enjoyed immunity from arrest in certain churches, hence transferred sense of "immunity from punishment" (late 14c.). Exceptions were made in England in cases of treason and sacrilege. General (non-ecclesiastical) sense of "place of refuge or protection" is attested from 1560s; as "land set aside for wild plants or animals to breed and live" it is recorded from 1879.

1. A friend dubbed it "The Sanctuary "and the name stuck.

ある友人がふざけて「避難所」と呼んだ後、この名前はそのまま使用された。

2.I was glad to climb into the sanctuary of my bed.

喜んでベッドに登って隠れました.

3.There was a sanctuary of political refugees behind the hospital.

病院の後ろに政治難民の避難所がある。

4.The fleeing rebels found a sanctuary in the nearby church.

逃げている反逆分子が近くの教会に避難している。

5.This island is maintained as a sanctuary for endangered species.

その島は絶滅危惧種の保護区として継続している。