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preach

/preech/US // pritʃ //UK // (priːtʃ) //

宣讲,说教,传道,传教

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Definitions

v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to proclaim or make known by sermon.
    • : to deliver.
    • : to advocate or inculcate in speech or writing.
v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to deliver a sermon.
    • : to give earnest advice, as on religious or moral subjects or the like.
    • : to do this in an obtrusive or tedious way.

Phrases

  • preach to the converted
  • practice what you preach

Synonyms & Antonyms

Examples

  • While analytics will preach that you must shoot the three and post-up moves are virtually extinct from today’s game, the Lakers have gotten back to the finals doing the exact opposite.

  • So if I’m going to preach that, I better be practicing it every day.

  • The fact that diversity execs aren’t just preaching to the converted internally now is evidence of this.

  • Both issues are of acute concern for a president who preaches the need for self-sufficiency.

  • At Coffee Creek, his evangelical church outside Oklahoma City, he had preached on racial justice for the past three weeks.

  • At Christianity Today, Peter Chin claims Christians should preach peace instead of bogging down in the particulars of race.

  • Priests often preach support for the regime to their congregations, many of whom loudly dissent.

  • In letters to Theo, Vincent would preach to younger brother the virtues of life.

  • Sex and the City fans were right behind her, ready to preach.

  • We should partner with them to get the message across, have them at the table, and listen rather than preach.

  • When I am an old maid I am going to mount the platform and preach the training of the voice in childhood.

  • But it is emulating Mrs. Partington and her mop to attempt to preach down a (p. 206) world.

  • "I don't allow a parson's wife to preach to me about my duty, or to interfere wi' my family matters," said Rushmere, dryly.

  • Many of us think it would be well if we could find a reliable man who could work and who could preach during the hours of rest.

  • Arise and go to Ninive, the great city, and preach in it: For the wickedness thereof is come up before me.