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education or knowledge that brings understanding, insight, or awareness
- Reading widely can lead to personal enlightenment.
- The lecture provided enlightenment on modern physics.
- Travel often brings cultural enlightenment.
- The book offered practical enlightenment about economics.
- Enlightenment through education improves society.
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启蒙运动, 启蒙时代
a philosophical movement in the late 17th and 18th centuries that emphasized reason and science were of more importance than tradition and religion
- The Enlightenment challenged traditional authority and promoted reason as the basis for understanding the world.
启蒙运动挑战了传统权威，并推动理性作为理解世界的基础。
- Enlightenment thinkers such as Voltaire and Rousseau advocated for freedom of thought and expression.
启蒙运动思想家如伏尔泰和卢梭倡导思想和言论自由。
- The Enlightenment paved the way for scientific advancements and the questioning of religious dogma.
启蒙运动为科学进步和对宗教教条的质疑铺平了道路。
- Philosophers during the Enlightenment sought to apply reason and logic to all aspects of human society.
启蒙运动时期的哲学家们试图将理性和逻辑应用于人类社会的各个方面。
- The Enlightenment had a profound impact on political thought, influencing the ideas of democracy and individual rights.
启蒙运动对政治思想产生了深远的影响，影响了民主和个人权利的思想。
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(in Buddhism and Hinduism) a transcendent state of spiritual realization, liberation from the cycle of reincarnation, characterized by the cessation of desire, suffering, and individual consciousness
- The monk achieved enlightenment after years of meditation.
- Enlightenment in Buddhism marks the end of worldly suffering.
- Hinduism describes enlightenment as liberation from rebirth.
- Enlightenment is a central goal of many Eastern traditions.
- The teachings guide followers toward enlightenment.
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