Quaker
Quaker 英 [ˈkweɪkə(r)] 美 [ˈkwekɚ]
n. 教友派信徒；贵格会教徒
名词复数:quakers
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- n. 教友派信徒；贵格会教徒
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1. All is reported at the General Assembly or GA every night at 7:30 p.m. Participants use Quaker consensus decision-making hand signals in all meetings.
商讨结果每晚7:30在大会报告。 与会者利用教友会信徒(Quaker)的舆论决策法(consensus decision-making)——所有会议中用手势表达想法。
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2. Levi Coffin, a Quaker raised in North Carolina, explained, "The Bible, in bidding us to feed the hungry and clothe the naked, said nothing about color.
在北卡罗来纳州长大的贵格会教徒利瓦伊•科芬解释说：“《圣经》上只是要我们给饥者以食物，无衣者以衣衫，但没提到过肤色的事。”
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3. Well I recently realized that the Quaker company offers individual packets of flavored oatmeals, ranging from apple cinnamon to blueberry, and all of them are delicious.
我最近才知道Quaker 公司为个人提供了不同口味包装的燕麦片，从苹果桂皮到蓝莓，这些都是很美味的。
- Quaker (n.) 1651, said to have been applied to them in 1650 by Justice Bennett at Derby, from George Fox's admonition to his followers to "tremble at the Word of the Lord;" but the word was used earlier of foreign sects given to fits of shaking during religious fervor, and that is likely the source here. Either way, it never was an official name of the Religious Society of Friends. The word in a literal sense is attested from early 15c., an agent noun from quake (v.).
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