1.RRCa priest of the lowestrank, whose job is to help the priest who is in charge of an area 助理牧师
2curate’s eggBritish EnglishBrEMIX something that has good and bad parts 有好有坏的东西
The book is something of a curate’s egg.
这本书瑕瑜互见。
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curate• He served briefly as a curate before teaching at St Patrick's seminary at Maynooth.• He entered Chichester Theological College and later became a curate in Lincolnshire.• It was clear that he was no ordinarycurate.• He looks and sounds like the second curate in a three-priest parish, and his speciality was killing silently.• The curate was troubled by the conflict between his love of biblical study and the chores of the parish.