Sermon
['sɜːmən] or ['sɝmən]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) a moralistic rebuke; 'your preaching is wasted on him'.
(noun.) an address of a religious nature (usually delivered during a church service).
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解釋/意思:
(n.) A discourse or address; a talk; a writing; as, the sermons of Chaucer.
(n.) Specifically, a discourse delivered in public, usually by a clergyman, for the purpose of religious instruction and grounded on some text or passage of Scripture.
(n.) Hence, a serious address; a lecture on one's conduct or duty; an exhortation or reproof; a homily; -- often in a depreciatory sense.
(v. i.) To speak; to discourse; to compose or deliver a sermon.
(v. t.) To discourse to or of, as in a sermon.
(v. t.) To tutor; to lecture.
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同義詞及近義詞：
n. Homily, exhortation, religious discourse.
校對:塞勒斯特
解釋/意思:
n. a discourse on a text of Scripture delivered during divine service: any serious address any serious counsel admonition or reproof.—v.t. to tutor to lecture.—ns. Sermol′ogus a volume containing sermons by the Church fathers; Sermoneer′ a sermoniser; Ser′moner a preacher; Ser′monet a little sermon.—adjs. Sermon′ic -al having the character of a sermon.—n. Ser′moning the act of preaching: a homily.—v.i. Ser′monise to compose or preach sermons: to lecture: to lay down the law.—v.t. to preach a sermon to.—ns. Sermonī′ser one who preaches or writes sermons; Sermō′nium a historical play formerly acted by the inferior orders of the Roman Catholic clergy; Sermun′cle a little sermon.
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例句/造句/用法:
- Ye couldn't treat a poor sinner, now, to a bit of sermon, could ye,--eh? 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
- A sermon, good in itself, is no rare thing. 簡·奧斯丁. 曼斯費爾德莊園.
- Think of mass and a sermon away down in those tangled caverns under ground! 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- You are half paid with the sermon, Mrs. Fitchett, remember that. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- Martin, I say, disliked Sunday, because the morning service was long, and the sermon usually little to his taste. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- Its only organization was an organization of preachers, and its chief function was the sermon. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- I like that kind of sermon. 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
- The remedy was, to thrust them forward into the centre of the schoolroom, and oblige them to stand there till the sermon was finished. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- His speeches began to turn on platitudes--on the vague idealism and indisputable moralities of the Decalogue and the Sermon on the Mount. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- A magnificent sermon was preached by my gifted friend on the heathen indifference of the world to the sinfulness of little sins. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- He made then a great sermon to his people of which the tradition is as follows. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Our sermon books are shut up when Miss Crawley arrives, and Mr. Pitt, whom she abominates, finds it convenient to go to town. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- And by the sermon-book was the Observer newspaper, damp and neatly folded, and for Sir Pitt's own private use. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- Shall I preach you a sermon? 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- I wish I could describe that sermon: but it is past my power. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- Then, his preaching was ingenious and pithy, like the preaching of the English Church in its robust age, and his sermons were delivered without book. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- Mrs. Crawley, the rector's wife, was a smart little body, who wrote this worthy divine's sermons. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- You spin out your explanation as Moses spins out his sermons. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- How should you have liked making sermons? 簡·奧斯丁. 傲慢與偏見.
- Other books were produced, and after some deliberation he chose Fordyce's Sermons. 簡·奧斯丁. 傲慢與偏見.
- And I don't think my sermons are worth a load of coals to them. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- How often has my Mick listened to these sermons, she thought, and me reading in the cabin of a calm! 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- Many wise and true sermons are preached us every day by unconscious ministers in street, school, office, or home. 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
- My uncle Benjamin, too, approved of it, and proposed to give me his shorthand volumes of sermons to set up with, if I would learn shorthand. 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.
- Seeing this did more for Jo than the wisest sermons, the saintliest hymns, the most fervent prayers that any voice could utter. 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
- George avoided him in public and in the regiment, and, as we see, did not like those sermons which his senior was disposed to inflict upon him. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- I think the man who could often quarrel with Fanny, said Edmund affectionately, must be beyond the reach of any sermons. 簡·奧斯丁. 曼斯費爾德莊園.
- By hearing him often I came to distinguish easily between sermons newly composed and those which he had often preached in the course of his travels. 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.
- He was author of some elegant verses on the death of Queen Caroline, and published besides some poems and sermons, and died 1788. 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.
- Well, what do you think of my sermons from the stage? 福爾斯·休姆. 奇幻島.
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