And perhaps understandably, given the number of empty pews across the nation's churches each Sunday, far fewer weddings include a religious ceremony nowadays.

这也许可以让我们理解，每周日全国教堂里那些长凳空无人坐，因为现在举行婚礼和在婚礼上举行宗教仪式的人越来越少了。

The New Year's Eve celebration was traditionally highlighted with a religious ceremony given in honor of Heaven and Earth, the gods of the household and the family ancestors.

传统意义上强调除夕夜庆祝活动是祭拜天地和家里供奉的神仙和家庭先祖的宗教仪式。

Confucian sacrifice is not only a religious ceremony, but what it conforms is a sort of cultural tradition after Confucius, spiritual essence of an academy as well as its scholars.

儒家的祭祀不仅是一种类宗教仪式，而且它所确立的是自孔子以来的文化道统，是一个书院及其士人的精神命脉。

Ifamarriage ceremony is a religious thing, it is possibly wrong saying so.

如果婚姻仪式真是一种神圣的事情，说这种话，可能是不对的。

Their ceremony honored both his Jewish religious traditions and her Chinese customs.

他们的婚姻庆典结合了犹太人的传统和中国的习俗。