mission
mission 英 [ˈmɪʃn] 美 [ˈmɪʃən]
n. 使命,任务;代表团;布道
名词复数:missions
- A mission is a special quest, one that involves more effort than, say, a trip to the corner store. If you were to drive all around the state searching garage sales for porcelain cats, you could say you were on a mission.
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- n. 使命,任务;代表团;布道
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1. a trade mission to China
赴华贸易代表团
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2. a fact-finding mission
核查事实的工作
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3. a mercy mission to aid homeless refugees
帮助无家可归的难民的慈善工作
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4. the head of the British mission in Berlin
在柏林的英国使团团长
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5. Her mission in lifewas to work with the homeless.
她以帮助无家可归者为己任。
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6. a US space mission
美国的太空飞行
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7. It's a mission to get there.
一路上要经历艰辛才能到达那里。
- mission (n.) 1590s, "a sending abroad," originally of Jesuits, from Latin missionem (nominative missio) "act of sending, a dispatching; a release, a setting at liberty; discharge from service, dismissal," noun of action from past participle stem of mittere "to release, let go; send, throw," which de Vaan traces to a PIE *m(e)ith- "to exchange, remove," also source of Sanskrit methete, mimetha "to become hostile, quarrel," Gothic in-maidjan "to change;" he writes, "From original 'exchange', the meaning developed to 'give, bestow' ... and 'let go, send'."
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