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单词

missionary

读音
ˈmɪʃəneri
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英式
词根

词根为 "mission-", 它来自拉丁语词根 "miss",意为"发送"。

释义

n. 传教士 adj. 传教的;传教士的;传教士般的 [ 复数 missionaries ]

例句

My mother would still like me to be a missionary in Africa.
我母亲还是想让我在非洲做一名传教士。
She had a kind of missionary zeal about bringing culture to the masses.
她对把文化带给大众具有一种传教士般的热情。
NB: The opinions stated in this essay do not necessarily represent those of the Church of God Missionary Society.
请注意:本文所述观点不一定代表上帝传教会教堂的观点。

强化记忆

你可以联想到"mission"(使命),一个传教士的“使命”是去传播他们的信仰,这样可以帮助记忆。Missionary主要来自于欧洲的宗教扩张,特别是与基督教的传播直接相关。这个单词在英文中首次出现是在17世纪。

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or sexually ambiguous.A Jesuit missionary named Francisco Alcinasaid that one man he believed to be a shaman
to the point that he was removed from power and thrown in jail.When the missionary, Bartolomé de las Casas,visited the island, he wrote,
the only option was total immersion.So I posed as a teacher and a missionaryat an all-male university in Pyongyang.
some of their descendants shifted positions.They formed a political group known as “the Missionary Party”and began plotting to annex Hawaii, bringing it under US control.
But before she introduced it, the so-called “Committee of Safety,”a new organization that consisted of many Missionary Party members,hatched another plot.
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