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missionary

/mish-uh-ner-ee/US // ˈmɪʃ əˌnɛr i //UK // (ˈmɪʃənərɪ) //

传教士,宣教士,传道士,传道者

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural mis·sion·ar·ies.Also mis·sion·er for 1-3 .

    • : a person sent by a church into an area to carry on evangelism or other activities, as educational or hospital work: There are opportunities for student missionaries living abroad to work with the poor, participate in building projects, and share the Gospel.
    • : a person strongly in favor of a program, set of principles, etc., who attempts to persuade or convert others.
    • : a person who is sent on a mission.
    • : missionary position.
adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : pertaining to or connected with religious missions.
    • : engaged in such a mission or devoted to work connected with missions.
    • : reflecting or prompted by the desire to persuade or convert others: the missionary efforts of political fanatics.
    • : characteristic of a missionary: missionary zeal.
    • : relating to or noting the missionary position: Then it was up to the bedroom for some good, old-fashioned missionary sex.

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Examples

  • Both in 2018 and 2019, I myself was evacuated from Haiti by United Nations security after violent protests broke out and made getting any missionary work done impossible.

  • To be frank, it wasn’t the missionaries who built the Alamo.

  • At the time, Jurado says, the Philippines had few medical hospitals and clinics, primarily set up by the Spanish colonial government and missionaries.

  • Founded in 1892 by American missionaries and educators, it’s now a vibrant center for cultural and educational exchange between Spain and the US.

  • Evangelical missionaries, though, are reportedly telling tribes not to take the vaccine because “they will turn into an alligator.”

  • Jesuits are educators known as the intellectuals of the church; they also have a long missionary tradition.

  • Outside, they killed Hector McMillan, a Canadian missionary, before joining the ranks of the fleeing rebels.

  • Heavily armed Simbas had already arrived at the missionary house and were lining up families in the backyard for execution.

  • The hospital also treated a second missionary who died in early August, and this nurse also had come in contact with him.

  • Bagaza called for the expulsion of all Italian priests and missionary workers, but those who stayed received death threats.

  • His zeal led him among foreigners as a missionary; after visiting Bohemia, he went among the Poles, by whom he was killed.

  • Are you quite sure,” asked the missionary pointedly, “that you are supplied with everything else that you require?

  • I rather fear, major, that your method of comforting me is not what the missionary would call orthodox.

  • So we composed ourselves again to hear of the battle to the death between the noble missionary woman and the mighty Bengal.

  • He hoped to hear that melody again, when Mr. Warden had finished the story of the brave missionary of Ballerraderad.