cult
音标：
美音：/kʌlt/，英音：/kʌlt/
听听基本释意：
外刊例句：
In addition to collecting ballots during Sunday worship, he urged his evangelical congregation to oppose a ballot measure that would enshrine abortion rights in California’s Constitution, calling it “the death cult proposition.”
除了在周日礼拜期间收集选票外，他还敦促他的福音派会众反对一项将堕胎权纳入加州宪法的投票措施，称其为“死亡崇拜提议”。
—Washington Times
“When asked how to know when you are in a cult, I said count the number of Hollywood stars in it,” he would tell his audience.
“当被问及如何知道你何时处于邪教中时，我说数一数其中有多少好莱坞明星，”他告诉听众。
—New York Times
Nor will his followers simply extricate themselves from a movement that’s more cult than political party.
他的追随者也不会简单地将自己从一场比政党更邪教的运动中解脱出来。
—Washington Post
基本释意：
noun
a system of religious beliefs and rituals
n. 异教，异教组织；狂热崇拜，迷信；（特定群体的）偶像，时尚；崇拜者，信徒；宗教信仰，宗教习俗
同义词：
cultus,religious cult,craze,fad,furor,furore,rage
短释义：
People argue about whether the major religions of the world are just well-established cults — that, age and size aside, they are no different from any group that follows a spiritual leader.
人们争论世界上的主要宗教是否只是根深蒂固的邪教——抛开年龄和规模不谈，它们与任何追随精神领袖的团体没有什么不同。
长释义：
A cult is group of people defined by a "religious" devotion to something — often a self-appointed leader. Most people view cults as strange and frightening, mostly because cults have, over the years, done some strange and frightening things, including murders and mass suicides. Sometimes, too, you’ll see cult used as an adjective to describe something or someone with a small, devoted fan-base. John Water’s movies are cult favorites, adored by a select group of film lovers but not by the public at large.
邪教是由对某事的“宗教”奉献定义的一群人——通常是自封的领袖。大多数人认为邪教是奇怪和可怕的，主要是因为多年来邪教做了一些奇怪和可怕的事情，包括谋杀和集体自杀。有时，您也会看到 cult 被用作形容词来描述拥有少量忠实粉丝的某物或某人。约翰·沃特 (John Water) 的电影是狂热的最爱，受到一小部分电影爱好者的喜爱，但并未受到广大公众的喜爱。
文学例句：
They sounded like some other secret cult thing.
他们听起来像是其他一些秘密的邪教组织。
—Shadowshaper by Daniel José Older
He sat apart from the rest of the cult of suicides, his legs crooked impossibly.
他与其他自杀狂热分子分开坐着，他的腿弯曲得不可思议。
—The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves by M.T. Anderson
In a religious context, cult refers to a relatively small group of people dedicated to a set of beliefs that are outside mainstream theology.
在宗教背景下，邪教指的是一小群人，他们信奉主流神学之外的一系列信仰。
—An Indigenous People’s History of the United States by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
词源：
cult (n.)1610s, "worship, homage" (a sense now obsolete); 1670s, "a particular form or system of worship;" from French culte (17c.), from Latin cultus "care, labor; cultivation, culture; worship, reverence," originally "tended, cultivated," past participle of colere "to till" (see colony).The word was rare after 17c., but it was revived mid-19c. (sometimes in French form culte) with reference to ancient or primitive systems of religious belief and worship, especially the rites and ceremonies employed in such worship. Extended meaning "devoted attention to a particular person or thing" is from 1829.Cult. An organized group of people, religious or not, with whom you disagree. [Hugh Rawson, "Wicked Words," 1993]Cult is a term which, as we value exactness, we can ill do without, seeing how completely religion has lost its original signification. Fitzedward Hall, "Modern English," 1873]Related entries & more
下面是词源的翻译（机器翻译比较难翻，参考着看）
cult (n.)1610s，“崇拜，敬意”（现在已经过时的意思）； 1670 年代，“一种特定的崇拜形式或制度；”源自法语 culte (17c.)，源自拉丁语 cultus“照料、劳动；培养、文化；崇拜、崇敬”，最初是“照料、培养”，colere“to till”的过去分词（参见殖民地）。这个词在之后很少见17c.，但它在 19c 中期复活。 （有时法语形式 culte）指的是古代或原始的宗教信仰和崇拜系统，特别是这种崇拜中采用的仪式和仪式。引申义“专注于特定的人或事物”来自 1829.Cult。一群有组织的人，无论是否有宗教信仰，你不同意。 [Hugh Rawson，“Wicked Words”，1993 年]Cult 是一个术语，因为我们重视精确性，我们不能没有它，因为宗教已经完全失去了它的原始含义。 Fitzedward Hall，“现代英语”，1873 年]相关条目及更多
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