missionary
missionary 英 [ˈmɪʃənri] 美 [ˈmɪʃəneri]
n. 传教士
名词复数:missionaries
- A missionary is a person whose mission is to go somewhere to help others. In many cases, the goal of a missionary is to teach about a religion so that the people convert to that faith.
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- n. 传教士
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1. Baptist missionaries
浸信会传教士
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2. missionary work
传教士的工作
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3. She spoke about her new project with missionary zeal.
她以极大的热忱谈论自己的新项目。
- missionary (adj.) "sent on a mission," 1640s, from Modern Latin missionarius "pertaining to a mission," from Latin missionem (see mission).
- missionary (n.) 1650s, from missionary (adj.). Missionary position attested by 1963, said to have been coined by Kinsey (1948), who identified its origin in work done by Polish anthropologist Bronisław Malinowski in Melanesia in the 1920s; allegedly from the term used by South Pacific peoples to describe what Christian missionaries promoted to replace their local variations. By late 1960s it became the general term for this type of sex, formerly also known as the English-American position.
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