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词汇 bishop
释义 bishop
noun[ C ]
uk /ˈbɪʃ.əp/ us /ˈbɪʃ.əp/

bishopnoun[C] (PRIEST)


a priest of high rank who is in charge of the priests of lower rank in a particular area: 主教
the Bishop of Durham达勒姆主教
Bishop Desmond Tutu德斯蒙德‧图图主教
the consecration of the new bishop新主教的授任仪式
We are counting on your speech, bishop, to give some moral uplift to the delegates.主教,我们寄希望于您的演讲能够提升代表们的道德境界。
The bishop criticized the government for its "callous, uncaring attitude" to the homeless and the unemployed.
Poverty and ignorance, the bishop said, were the forces of evil in our society today.主教说,贫穷和无知给我们当今社会带来极大的危害。
The bishop's speech has prompted an angry response from both political parties.主教的发言激起了两大政党的愤怒回应。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

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anti-papal
apostolic
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archbishopric
archdeacon
confessor
curacy
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deacon
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priestly
primate
rabbi
rabbinical
the Dalai Lama
the priesthood

bishopnoun[C] (CHESS)


a piece that moves from corner to corner along squares of the same colour(国际象棋中的)象
 
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bishop | American Dictionary


bishop
noun[ C ]
us/ˈbɪʃ·əp/
a priest of high rank who is in charge of the priests of lower rank in a particular area
In the game of chess, a bishop is a piece that can move only in a diagonal way along squares of the same color.

Examples of bishop


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By 1640, the bishops held only 40 places on county commissions - half the number of 1590 and 1608.
By 1636 the numbers were lower still : 25 bishops and 72 ministers, totalling fewer than a hundred.
Nobles who had been married twice and therefore were unfit for an ecclesiastic career were appointed bishops through bribes, connections or both.
Rather, it means that most bishops who meet a man bless the man.
However, it must surely now look like a bill which the bishops wanted and for which they mobilized council support.
The first day consisted of presentations by several bishops from the region, to provide their perspectives on regional conflict.
See ibid. p. 121: '... bishops at their cathedrals say a homily when they lead in the penitents, and they do absolution'.
The bishop's approach is not only extremely idiosyncratic but methodologically very intricate.
Late medieval bishops requested prayers for the dead in language identical to the laity.
Most of the earliest bishops' wives were uncommemorated after death.
The bishops constructed residences analogous to those of the political and social aristocracy.
Secondly, and most unusually for a bishop's register of this date, there is very little routine business in this volume.
The bishops were divided on how to handle the crisis.
The tension between bishops and their chapters was also one facet of the growing hostility between bishops and monks in general.
1218-1266 423 bishops' attempts to exercise their abbatial powers.
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