| 英语单词 | missionary |
|---|---|
| 英美音标 | 英 ['mɪʃənri] 美 ['mɪʃəneri] |
| 中文释义 | n.传教士 adj.传教的 |
| 英语例句 | (1) The missionary was sent to India last year. (2) He disguised himself as a missionary. (3) We need to motivate members to do missionary work. (4) Our missionary work had an important breakthrough. |
| 中文例句 | (1) 这名传教士去年被派到印度。 (2) 他伪装成传教士。 (3) 我们必须策励教友传教的工作。 (4) 我们的传教工作有了很重要的突破。 |
| vocabulary简明 | A missionary is a person whose mission is to go somewhere to help others. In many cases, the goal of a missionary is to teach about a religion so that the people convert to that faith. |
| vocabulary扩展 | Missionary can be a noun — the person who goes on a mission — or an adjective — the type of work done on such a trip. If your great-grandmother was a missionary for the Methodist church in Japan in the 1920’s, her purpose there was to convince people to abandon their religion for Methodism. Presumably she did this missionary work because she thought it would save their souls. |
| 柯林斯解释 | 1 [N-COUNT 可数名词](派往国外的)传教士 A missionary is a Christian who has been sent to a foreign country to teach people about Christianity. 2 [ADJ 形容词]传教的;布道的 Missionary is used to describe the activities of missionaries. [ADJ n]
3 [ADJ 形容词](热情)传教士般的 If you refer to someone's enthusiasm for an activity or belief as missionary zeal, you are emphasizing that they are very enthusiastic about it. [ADJ n] [emphasis]
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