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sermon

/sur-muhn/US // ˈsɜr mən //UK // (ˈsɜːmən) //

说教,讲道,讲义,布道

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n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a discourse for the purpose of religious instruction or exhortation, especially one based on a text of Scripture and delivered by a member of the clergy as part of a religious service.
    • : any serious speech, discourse, or exhortation, especially on a moral issue.
    • : a long, tedious speech.

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Examples

  • Loeffler dug into his past sermons and church affiliations, most prominently noting that a church with which he was affiliated decades ago had invited Fidel Castro to speak.

  • The ad is spliced with snippets of Warnock yelling during sermons.

  • The play presents itself as a time-transcending sermon of sorts, as Hamer addresses the modern audience through the gaze of her civil rights era perspective.

  • He says the couple didn’t appreciate his most recent sermon, which urged Christians to call out and challenge racism anywhere they saw it, including in their own church.

  • Every day a new sermon was delivered to me with a bow on it.

  • A Gaylard Williams Sunday sermon (which lasted for 45 minutes on average) was something to behold.

  • King says in a sermon a month later at Tabernacle Baptist Church in Selma, Alabama.

  • In Germany, a prominent Muslim imam gave a sermon asking Allah to kill all of the “Zionist Jews.”

  • “I agree with what the sermon was and what it was about,” she said.

  • Your sermon this Sunday morning: Is the power of prayer enough to overcome the German defense?

  • I felt just the same when I was married myself; but it's nothing to preaching one's first sermon.

  • The author of the life of St. Francis Xavier, asserts, that "by one sermon he converted ten thousand persons in a desert island."

  • A clergyman observed in his sermon, that this was unpardonable, as people did it with their eyes open.

  • Many years ago, while a clergyman on the coast of Cornwall was in the midst of his sermon, the alarm was given, A wreck!

  • In the churchyard, under a great tree, still standing, John Wesley preached his last open-air sermon.