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

• The Muslim diaspora and Muslim missionaries are bringing the faith to previously untouched areas.
  穆斯林散居者和传教士们正将其信仰带到先前从未接触过的地区。
• The Indian transmitters were court functionaries, not missionaries.
  印度文化的传递者都是朝廷的官员而不是传教士。
• The Chinese began to know the true Western world only after the Western missionaries arrived in China.
  传教士的到来使中国人认识了西方世界。
• They were missionaries, but they were here.
  他们是传教士，但他们曾经来过这里。
• They both work as missionaries at a Catholic charity in africa.
  他们都是非洲天主教团体的传教士。
• Some missionaries came from England in the Qing Dynasty.
  清朝时，从英国来了一些传教士。
• The missionaries believed they were instruments of god.
  传教士们认为他们自己是上帝的工具。
• 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。
• Missionaries went far afield to propagate their faith.
  传教士到远方去传播其信仰。
• 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。