a person who is sent to a foreign country to teach people about religion, especially Christianity 传教士 Baptist missionaries 浸礼会传教士 missionary work 传教士的工作 - (figurative)
She spoke about her new project with missionary zeal (= with great enthusiasm). 她以极大的热忱谈论自己的新项目。 He spent 15 years as a missionary in Africa. 他在非洲做了 15 年的传教士。 clergy sent as missionaries to Latin America 被派往拉丁美洲传教的神职人员
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- foreign
- pioneer
- evangelical
- …
- work as
- send (somebody as)
- work
- zeal
- as a missionary
Word Originmid 17th cent.: from modern Latin missionarius, from Latin missio, from mittere ‘send’.