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Mission N Count 可数名词   [Usu People Group Life Special

英语单词 mission
英美音标 英 ['mɪʃn] 美 ['mɪʃn]
中文释义 n.使命;代表团;任务;布道
英语例句 (1) The minister was sent to Spain on mission.
(2) My mission in life is to help poor people.
(3) A Chinese trade mission has been dispatched to Japan.
(4) Her mission was to reclaim former criminals.
(5) He has been on confidential missions to Berlin.
中文例句 (1) 这位部长奉命前往西班牙。
(2) 我的天职是帮助穷人。
(3) 一个中国贸易代表团已被派往日本。
(4) 她的任务是感化过去的罪犯。
(5) 他前往柏林执行秘密任务。
vocabulary简明 A mission is a special quest, one that involves more effort than, say, a trip to the corner store. If you were to drive all around the state searching garage sales for porcelain cats, you could say you were on a mission.
vocabulary扩展 Mission comes from a Latin word that means “to send.” It was first used by Jesuit missionaries who sent members of their order overseas to establish schools and churches. Foreign travel is still associated with the word. When diplomats and humanitarian workers travel abroad, we often refer to those trips as missions.
柯林斯解释
1
[N-COUNT 可数名词](尤指赴他国的)使命,重要任务 A mission is an important task that people are given to do, especially one that involves travelling to another country.
  [usu with supp]
  • Salisbury sent him on a diplomatic mission to North America...

    索尔兹伯里派他到北美执行一项外交任务。

  • He has been on a mission to help end Lebanon's political crisis.

    他已经被派执行一项旨在帮助结束黎巴嫩政治危机的使命。

  • ...the most crucial stage of his latest peace mission.

    他最近执行的和平使命中最关键的一个阶段

2
[N-COUNT 可数名词]驻外使团;出国代表团 A mission is a group of people who have been sent to a foreign country to carry out an official task.
  [usu with supp]
  • ...the head of the mission in South Africa.

    驻南非代表团团长

  • ...a senior member of a diplomatic mission.

    外交使团的高级成员

3
[N-COUNT 可数名词](军用飞机或航天火箭的)飞行任务 A mission is a special journey made by a military aeroplane or space rocket.
  [usu supp N]
  • ...a bomber that crashed during a training mission in the west Texas mountains.

    在得克萨斯州西部山区执行训练任务时坠毁的轰炸机

  • ...the first shuttle mission.

    首次航天飞行任务

4
[N-SING 单数名词]使命;天职 If you say that you have a mission, you mean that you have a strong commitment and sense of duty to do or achieve something.
  [usu poss N]
  • He viewed his mission in life as protecting the weak from the evil...

    他认为自己毕生的使命就是保护弱者不受邪恶势力的欺凌。

  • There is an enormous sense of mission in his speech and gesture.

    他的一言一行都带着强烈的使命感。

5
[N-COUNT 可数名词](基督教徒的)传教,布道 A mission is the activities of a group of Christians who have been sent to a place to teach people about Christianity.
  • They say God spoke to them and told them to go on a mission to the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere.

    他们说上帝让他们去西半球最贫困的国家传播教义。

6
[N-COUNT 可数名词]传教区;布道所 A mission is a building or group of buildings in which missionary work is carried out.
  • I reside at the mission at St Michael's.

    我住在圣·米歇尔教堂的传道会里。

  • ...schools, monasteries and other mission buildings.

    学校、修道院及其他布道场所

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