RRCsomeone who has been sent to a foreign country to teach people about Christianity and persuade them to become Christians 〔被派到国外的〕传教士
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missionary• Sister Courtney was a missionary in Nicaragua for 15 years.• Eventually unmarried women found vocationaloutlets as missionaries.• At Kemmendine, there were two experienced missionaries, men of outstanding ability, character and devotion.• No wonder the Twelve made it their priority, and the namelessmissionaries of 8:4 took it as their great weapon.• In the basement meeting room, he placed me on a bench be-tween two other missionaries.• In the persecution of 1665, he was banished with other missionaries to Canton.• The missionaries held on to my arms.• Gambling and crowddisorder was customary but there is no question that Clarke and his boys were missionaries.• In October 1927, the young missionary was steaming at 15-20 knots towards Rangoon.
2missionary zealif you do something with missionaryzeal, you do it with great eagerness, because you believe strongly that it is a good thing to do 极大的热忱,传教士般的热情
a young English teacher who taught poetry with missionary zeal
ADJECTIVE | VERB + MISSIONARY | MISSIONARY + NOUN | PREPOSITIONADJECTIVE➤foreign外國傳教士▸➤pioneer最早的傳教士➤evangelical, medical福音/醫療傳教士▸➤Catholic, Protestant, etc.天主教、新教等傳教士VERB + MISSIONARY➤work as做傳教士▸➤send (sb as)派(某人為)傳教士◇clergy sent as missionaries to Latin America被派往拉丁美洲傳教的神職人員MISSIONARY + NOUN➤work傳教工作▸➤zeal傳教士般的熱忱◇He argued the case for reorganization with missionary zeal.他以傳教士般的熱忱力陳改組的理由。PREPOSITION➤as a missionary作為傳教士◇He spent 15 years as a missionary in Africa.他在非洲做了 15 年的傳教士。