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parochial

/puh-roh-kee-uhl/US // pəˈroʊ ki əl //UK // (pəˈrəʊkɪəl) //

教区,教区的,教会,堂区

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : of, relating to, or financially supported by one or more church parishes: parochial churches in Great Britain.
    • : of or relating to parochial schools or the education they provide.
    • : very limited or narrow in scope or outlook; provincial: parochial views; a parochial mentality.

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Examples

  • Cuomo was lucky to be the governor of New York and therefore in the center of a media world that can be noticeably parochial.

  • Nearly 16,000 students at private and parochial schools in the city have been learning in person, with fewer than five cases of suspected in-school transmission, the lawsuit says.

  • Beyond that, an estimated 7,000 employees work in roughly 215 private and parochial schools, with an additional 15,000 people employed in child-care centers.

  • As a consequence, too many focus on comparatively parochial, short-term concerns over global problems.

  • When we hit this point, any previous extrapolations can seem pretty parochial.

  • After years at the head of a parochial school classroom, he could no longer distinguish one blond Irish Catholic kid from another.

  • One enduring lesson of the Holocaust is that antisemitism is not a parochial Jewish interest.

  • My bias is that Congress tends to be parochial, irresponsible, and self-interested.

  • When I proposed calling the blog “Zion Square,” which later became “Open Zion,” some supporters said it was too parochial.

  • Like me, they understand the negotiations as serving petty parochial interests rather than the objective of achieving peace.

  • The cathedral is the only Spanish parochial church; it cares for two thousand four hundred souls.

  • At the port of Cavite is a parochial church, which ministers to over three thousand souls.

  • The vicar's wife, still slightly discomposed, launched out into some parochial matter she had wished to mention to him.

  • Inside the walls of Manila there is only one Spanish parochial church, namely, the cathedral.

  • Parochial church of Santiago, a suburb of Manila, and the souls cared for therein.