missionaries

英 [ˈmɪʃnəriz]

美 [ˈmɪʃəˌnɛriz]

n.  传教士
missionary的复数

柯林斯词典

• (派往国外的)传教士
  Amissionaryis a Christian who has been sent to a foreign country to teach people about Christianity.
• ADJ 传教的;布道的
  Missionaryis used to describe the activities of missionaries.
  1. You should be in missionary work.
     你应该从事传教工作。
• ADJ (热情)传教士般的
  If you refer to someone's enthusiasm for an activity or belief asmissionaryzeal, you are emphasizing that they are very enthusiastic about it.
  1. She had a kind of missionary zeal about bringing culture to the masses.
     她对于向大众传播文化有着满腔的热忱。

双语例句

• Some missionaries came from England in the Qing Dynasty.
  清朝时，从英国来了一些传教士。
• Thus, Chinese early English education was in a close relationship with missionaries.
  这样，中国早期的英语教育便与传教士们有了千丝万缕的联系。
• The missionaries should have rejoiced that their efforts had borne fruit.
  外国宣教士应该为之高兴，因他们来华传教的努力有了结果。
• Had it not been for the monks and Christian missionaries, Latin learning might have perished altogether.
  倘若不是由于僧侣和基督教传教士，拉丁语的学习也许已经彻底消失。
• Researchers collected more than 480 reports from missionaries, plantation doctors, explorers and anthropologists.
  研究人员从传教士、农林医生、探险家、人类学家那里收集了480多份报告，其中包括何人因何原因而食土。
• Some of the missionaries were in hiding.
  有些传教士躲藏起来了。
• The missionaries had been agitating against it for years, and at last the local press took it up.
  传教士们多年来一直鼓吹加以查禁，当地报界也终于进行了报导。
• Sealers and whales followed, and, in1814, Christian missionaries.
  1814年，捕海豹者、捕鲸者和基督教传教士同行来到这。
• The missionaries converted the Indian population.
  传教士皈依了印度人口。
• In addition, thousands of missionaries from America and other countries have devoted their lives to helping people.
  除此之外，成千上万来自美国及其它国家的宣教士，已投注了他们的生命去帮助别人。