missionary
英 ['mɪʃ(ə)n(ə)rɪ]
美['mɪʃənɛri]
- adj. 传教的；传教士的
- n. 传教士
词态变化
复数: missionaries;
中文词源
missionary 传教士
来自mission,使命。即有使命的人，用于指传教士。
英英释意
- 1. someone who attempts to convert others to a particular doctrine or program
- 2. someone sent on a mission--especially a religious or charitable mission to a foreign country
英文词源
- missionary (n.)
- 1650s, from missionary (adj.). Missionary position attested by 1963, said to have been coined by Kinsey (1948), who identified its origin in work done by Polish anthropologist Bronisław Malinowski in Melanesia in the 1920s; allegedly from the term used by South Pacific peoples to describe what Christian missionaries promoted to replace their local variations. By late 1960s it became the general term for this type of sex, formerly also known as the English-American position.
- missionary (adj.)
- "sent on a mission," 1640s, from Modern Latin missionarius "pertaining to a mission," from Latin missionem (see mission).
考试真题
- It is easy, talking to Clancy and his colleagues, to be swept along by their missionary passion.
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实用场景例句
- Baptist missionaries
- 浸礼会传教士
牛津词典
- missionary work
- 传教士的工作
牛津词典
- (figurative)She spoke about her new project with missionary zeal (= with great enthusiasm) .
- 她以极大的热忱谈论自己的新方案。
牛津词典
- You should be in missionary work.
- 你应该从事传教工作。
柯林斯高阶英语词典
- She had a kind of missionary zeal about bringing culture to the masses.
- 她对于向大众传播文化有着满腔的热忱。
柯林斯高阶英语词典
- Years ago, Dr. Wilfred Grenfell served as a medical missionary in Labrador.
- 好几年前, 威福瑞德?格连菲尔医生在美国东北部的雷布雷德岛开展医疗布道.
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- I heard you sing at that school for missionary kids in Tokyo.
- 我是在东京那所传教士孩子的学校听到你演唱的.
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- At an early age, the girl who would become Mother Teresa decided to be a missionary.
- 那个将成为特蕾莎修女的女孩在年轻时本打算做传教士.
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- Morrison is the first missionary to China.
- 莫里森是最早来华的传教士.
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- In 1906, missionary Pev and Mrs Harry Parsons brought potato into this area.
- 1906年, 传教士张道惠夫人将洋芋引入石门坎.
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- I hope every member understands the value of missionary work.
- 我希望教友都了解传教工作的价值.
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- You are very fitting to be a missionary.
- 你很适合当一个传教士.
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- He was a missionary.
- 他是一位传教士.
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- She is an excellent missionary.
- 她是一个优秀的传教士.
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- The two missionary sisters have received their missionary crosses from the archbishop.
- 那两位传教士姊妹已经接受了大主教授予她们的教会十字架.
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- He spent 20 years in Korea as a missionary.
- 他在韩国当宣教士有二十年之久.
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- A punctual missionary is more likely to be successful.
- 一个准时的传教士比较会成功.
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- My wife is currently working in China as a missionary.
- 我的妻子最近在中国做传教士工作.
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- Giuseppe Castiglione, an Italian missionary, arrived in 1714.
- 郎世宁, 一位意大利传教士于1714年来到这里,成为中国皇帝的画师.
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- After missionary work in India he travelled to Armenia, Colombia.
- 他完成了在印度的传教工作后, 到了哥伦比亚的亚美尼亚.
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- The French missionary was intrigued by the stories he heard about these peculiar deer.
- 有关这种怪鹿的种种传说,使得这个法国传教士着了迷.
辞典例句
- The missionary was excited. He hadn't expected such a largeform our small church.
- 牧师很激动,他没料到我们这么一个小教堂会有那么大数目的捐赠.
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- She looked more like a missionary bent on saving souls.
- 她看上去就像一位拯救灵魂的传教士.
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- Brandon Rogers , a former missionary, is a rookie salesman.
- 以前是传教士, 现在是一个新手推销员.
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- " We would like very much to have you for dinner, " as the cannibal said to the captured missionary.
- 嗜食人肉的人对被俘掳的传教士说: “ 我们想设宴招待你(吃掉你) ”.
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- A lot of people were familiar with church through missionary medical work.
- 其次麦路得医生在梧州的工作也很引人注目.医学传教极大地推动了传教工作的发展,广大群众通过教会的医疗工作认识和熟悉了教会.
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- Wall, above Tower, a sculpture of Sakyamuni Buddha do missionary work.
- 壁上,塔柱上面, 雕刻有释迦牟尼佛传教事.
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