minister
minister 英 [ˈmɪnɪstə(r)] 美 [ˈmɪnɪstɚ]
n. 部长；大臣；牧师
进行时:ministering 过去式:ministered 过去分词:ministered 第三人称单数:ministers 名词复数:ministers
- You might meet a minister of the religious kind — a pastor or a rector. Or, you may meet a minister of the government kind — a prime minister or a minister of finance, for example.
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- n. 部长；大臣；牧师
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1. the Minister of Education
教育部长
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2. senior ministers in the Cabinet
内阁中的高级部长
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3. cabinet ministers
内阁部长
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4. Prime Minister
首相
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5. interior minister
内政部长 ; 内政大臣
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6. His father was a Baptist minister.
他父亲是一名浸礼会牧师。
- minister (n.) c. 1300, "one who acts upon the authority of another," from Old French menistre "servant, valet, member of a household staff, administrator, musician, minstrel" (12c.), from Latin minister (genitive ministri) "inferior, servant, priest's assistant" (in Medieval Latin, "priest"), from minus, minor "less," hence "subordinate" (from PIE root *mei- (2) "small") + comparative suffix *-teros. Formed on model of magister. Meaning "priest" is attested in English from early 14c. Political sense of "high officer of the state" is attested from 1620s, from notion of "service to the crown."
- minister (v.) early 14c., "to perform religious rites, provide religious services;" mid-14c., "to serve (food or drink);" late 14c. "render service or aid," from Old French menistrer "to serve, be of service, administer, attend, wait on," and directly from Latin ministrare "to serve, attend, wait upon," from minister "inferior, servant, priest's assistant" (see minister (n.)). Related: Ministered; ministering.
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