Canon

(noun.) a collection of books accepted as holy scripture especially the books of the Bible recognized by any Christian church as genuine and inspired.

(noun.) a complete list of saints that have been recognized by the Roman Catholic Church.

(noun.) a rule or especially body of rules or principles generally established as valid and fundamental in a field or art or philosophy; 'the neoclassical canon'; 'canons of polite society'.

(noun.) a contrapuntal piece of music in which a melody in one part is imitated exactly in other parts.

(noun.) a priest who is a member of a cathedral chapter.

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• Hence, the canon of Natura non facit saltum, which every fresh addition to our knowledge tends to confirm, is on this theory intelligible. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• The narrow canon in which Nablous, or Shechem, is situated, is under high cultivation, and the soil is exceedingly black and fertile. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• I do not know what a canon of a cathedral is, but that is what he was. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• On the theory of natural selection we can clearly understand the full meaning of that old canon in natural history, Natura non facit saltum. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• She lived with her uncle Fulbert, a canon of the cathedral of Paris. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• The poor canon of the cathedral of Paris was spiked again. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• He moved to a mansion on the opposite side of the canon, because he had noticed the mules did not go there. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• The ghastly, treeless, grassless, breathless canons smothered us as if we had been in an oven. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• In the canons we almost smothered in the baking atmosphere. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• It was over the barrenest chalk-hills and through the baldest canons that even Syria can show. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.

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