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词汇 preaching
释义 preaching
present participle ofpreach
preach
verb
uk /priːtʃ/ us /priːtʃ/

preachverb (IN CHURCH)


[ I or T ]
(especially of a priest or minister in a church) to give a religious speech: (尤指牧师在教堂中)讲道,布道
Father Martin preached to the assembled mourners.马丁神父向聚集的哀悼者们布道。
During the sermon, he preached about the need for forgiveness.在布道中,他宣讲了宽恕的必要性。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Meditation, religious chanting & spiritual states
asana
chakra
chant
flotation
hot yoga
incantation
mantra
meditate
meditative
mindful
mindfully
mindfulness
namaste
pranayama
preach
self-transcendence
sophrology
sun salutation
Transcendental Meditation
yogic

preachverb (PERSUADE)


[ T ]
to try to persuade other people to believe in a particular belief or follow a particular way of life: 竭力劝说,竭力鼓吹
They preach the abolition of established systems but propose nothing to replace them.他们竭力鼓吹废除现行体制,但没有提出取代方案。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Urging & persuading
ambulance-chasing
argumentation
badger
be/go on at someoneidiom
blag
blagger
get (something) through (to someone)
go on
hortatory
hustle
incitation
incitement
jockey
sales pitch
sway
uncoerced
unconvinced
unpersuaded
unpersuasive
unsalable

preachverb (ADVISE)


[ I ]disapproving
to give unwanted advice, especially about moral matters, in a boring way: 告诫;(尤指道德)说教
He's such a pain - he's always preaching about the virtues of working hard and getting up early.他很烦人——老在宣讲努力工作和早起的美德。
My mother's always preaching at/to me about keeping my room tidy.我母亲老是告诫我保持房间整洁。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Giving advice
advice column
advice columnist
advisability
advisable
advise against doing something
agony uncle
clinic
GDA
guidance
Monday-morning quarterbackidiom
oracle
pick someone's brainsidiom
piece of advice
preach
Privy Councillor
recommendation
run over/through something
shoe
SpAd
waste your breathidiom

Idiom


preach to the converted

Examples of preaching


preaching

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.


In the context of this song, the rap text indeed takes on dimensions of both testifying and preaching.
It makes fashionable claims about the ' theatricality ' of preaching and about the ' nuanced ' readings on offer in subsequent essays.
Worse still, they blatantly undermined the colonial mission by preaching divine healing.
The godly among them would have found such ministers' preaching inadequate.
After addressing a few preaching words to the audience, he slowly steps towards the glaring light along with numerous followers.
Obviously here a whole range of stimuli played a part : charismatic preaching, peer pressure, the example of a family member or social superior.
The first was the doctrine of medical prevention that public health reformers had been preaching since early in the century.%!
The governing idea in most seventeenth-century discussions of preaching styles is rhetorical decorum.
This attitude was compounded by the incredulity of the nationalist press that street preaching insulting to the religious sensibilities of the majority was legal.
The book also endeavours to recreate the preaching event itself.
They were not especially well suited to the needs of parishioners attempting to hear a minister preaching a lengthy sermon.
English writers on preaching are consistent in what they describe as the preacher's duty.
Throughout her study, the author places female preaching within a broader context of social intellectual and economic change.
All the preachers were older than fifty, and all had more than ten years of preaching experience.
As an architect, you promoted passive design principles, but also practised what you were preaching.
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