missionary是什麼意思 missionary的用法 missionary怎麼讀

missionary

英 ['mɪʃ(ə)n(ə)rɪ]美 ['mɪʃənɛri]

adj. 傳教的；傳教士的

n. 傳教士

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中文詞源

missionary 傳教士

來自mission,使命。即有使命的人，用於指傳教士。

英語詞源

missionary (n.)

1650s, from missionary (adj.). Missionary position

attested by 1963, said to have been coined by Kinsey (1948), who identified its origin in work done by Polish anthropologist Bronisław Malinowski in Melanesia in the 1920s; allegedly from the term used by South Pacific peoples to describe what Christian missionaries proMoted to replace their local variations. By late 1960s it became the general term for this type of sex, formerly also known as the English-American position.

missionary (adj.)

"sent on a mission," 1640s, from Modern Latin missionarius "pertaining to a mission," from Latin missionem (see mission).

權威例句

1. An American missionary was released today after more than two months of captivity.

一位美國傳教士在被關押兩個多月後於今天獲釋。

2. She had a kind of missionary zeal about bringing culture to the masses.

她對於向大衆傳播文化有着滿腔的熱忱。

3. NB The opinions stated in this essay do not necessarily represent those of the Church of God Missionary Society.

請注意：文中所述觀點並不代表傳教會的立場。

4. " We would like very much to have you for dinner, " as the cannibal said to the captured missionary.

嗜食人肉的人對被俘擄的傳教士說: “ 我們想設宴招待你(吃掉你) ”.

5. I repeat I freely consent to go with you as your fellow - missionary.

我再說一遍,我爽爽快快地同意跟你去,作爲你的傳教士的同事.

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