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nuncio

/nuhn-shee-oh, -see-oh, noon-/US // ˈnʌn ʃiˌoʊ, -siˌoʊ, ˈnʊn- //UK // (ˈnʌnʃɪˌəʊ, -sɪ-) //

驻华大使,牧师,驻华使节,驻华使馆

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n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural nun·ci·os.

    • : a diplomatic representative of the pope at a foreign court or capital: equal in status to an ambassador.

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Examples

  • Last August, Vigano was suddenly appointed papal nuncio, or ambassador, to the United States.

  • The Pope wished to make Wolfe a bishop, and to invest him with all the pomp proper to a nuncio.

  • Three times he made excuse; and at length the Nuncio went on foot to seek in Froben's press the scholar who would not come to him.

  • The nuncio, Salviati, informs us that young Guise urged his mother herself to kill Coligny.

  • The papal nuncio and the Venetian envoy were mediators as well as members of the congress.

  • The moment Luther arrived the nuncio approached him with great demonstrations of friendship.