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传教士

chuán jiào shì

3-character word Traditional 傳教士

What 传教士 means

1. missionary

The characters in 传教士

• 传chuánto pass on; to spread; to transmit
• 教jiāoto teach; to instruct
• 士shìmember of the senior ministerial class (old); scholar (old); bachelor

Example sentences

• 一八零七年，第一个到中国的英国新教徒传教士罗伯特马礼逊到了广州。
  Yī bā líng qī nián, dìyī gè dào Zhōngguó de Yīngguó xīnjiàotú chuánjiàoshì Luóbótè mǎ lǐ xùn dào le Guǎngzhōu.
  In 1807, Robert Morrison, the first British Protestant missionary to China arrived in Guangzhou.
• 她看到蒙哥马利通了公共汽车、伯明翰接上了水管、塞尔马建了桥，一位来自亚特兰大的传教士告诉人们：“我们将克服阻力。”是的，我们能做到。
  Tā kàn dào Ménggēmǎlì tōng le gōnggòngqìchē, Bómínghàn jiēshàng le shuǐguǎn, sāi ěr mǎ jiàn le qiáo, yī wèi láizì Yàtèlándà de chuánjiàoshì gàosu rénmen:"wǒmen jiāng kèfú zǔlì." shìde, wǒmen néng zuòdào.
  She was there for the buses in Montgomery, the hoses in Birmingham, a bridge in Selma, and a preacher from Atlanta who told a people that "We Shall Overcome." Yes, we can.