catena

• 指一系列相互关联的思想、段落或事物，每个环节都与前后紧密相连；常用于指基督教教父著作的链式注释集。

A noun referring to a connected series of ideas, passages, or objects, where each element is closely linked to the ones before and after, often used in the context of a chain of patristic comments explaining Christian doctrine.

1. Connected seriesC2formal

   A chain or series of connected ideas, passages, or objects where each element is closely related to the preceding and following ones.

   链条

   • The scholar presented a catena of biblical commentaries.
   • His argument formed a catena of logical deductions.
   • The manuscript contained a catena of patristic texts.

   同义词chainconcatenationcontinuumnexussequenceseriessuccession