missionaries
n. 传教士( missionary的名词复数 )
A missionary is a Christian who has been sent to a foreign country to teach people about Christianity.
Missionary is used to describe the activities of missionaries.
You should be in missionary work.
你应该从事传教工作。
If you refer to someone's enthusiasm for an activity or belief as missionary zeal, you are emphasizing that they are very enthusiastic about it.
She had a kind of missionary zeal about bringing culture to the masses.
她对于向大众传播文化有着满腔的热忱。
Some missionaries came from England in the Qing Dynasty.
清朝时,从英国来了一些传教士.
The missionaries rebuked the natives for worshipping images.
传教士指责当地人崇拜偶像.
From Persia itself came a party of Christian missionaries ( in 635 ).
从波斯本国还来了一群基督教传教士 ( 635年 ).
In later years it would become fashionable to say of the missionaries.
若干年以后,人们在谈起传教士时常常是人云亦云.
Missionaries went far afield to propagate their faith.
传教士到远方去传播其信仰.