minister

n. 部长；大臣；牧师

vi. 执行牧师职务；辅助或伺候某人

n.

大臣；部长；公使；牧师

vi.

辅助，服侍；执行牧师职务；

变形

复数：ministers过去式：ministered过去分词：ministered现在分词：ministering第三人称单数：ministers

双语释义

[C]大臣,部长 person at the head of a government department or a main branch of one

[C]公使,外交使节 person, usually of lower rank than an ambassador,representing his government in a foreign country

[C]牧师 Christian clergyman, especially in the Presbyterian and someNonconformist churches

vi. 辅助; 服侍 give help or service

英英释义

minister[ 'ministə ]

n.

a person authorized to conduct religious worship

"clergymen are usually called ministers in Protestant churches"

同义词：curateminister of religionparsonpastorrector

a person appointed to a high office in the government

同义词：government minister

a diplomat representing one government to another; ranks below ambassador

同义词：diplomatic minister

the job of a head of a government department

v.

attend to the wants and needs of others

"I have to minister to my mother all the time"

work as a minister

"She is ministering in an old parish"

词汇搭配

用作名词 (n.)

动词+～

accredit a minister任命公使

形容词+～

foreign minister外交部长

the Prime M-首相

vice minister副部长

名词+～

cabinet minister内阁部长

interior minister内政部长

～+介词

minister for…的部长

minister from派出的公使

minister in驻…的公使

minister of…的部长

minister to驻…的公使

the M- for Foreign Affairs外交部长

the M- for Home Affairs内务部长

the M- of Defence国防部长

the M- of Education教育部长

the M- of Foreign Affairs外交部长

用作动词 (v.)

～+副词

minister carefully认真地照顾

～+介词

minister to帮助,服侍

词组短语

prime minister首相，总理

foreign minister外交部长

finance minister财政部长

vice minister n. 副部长，副总理

defense minister国防部长

deputy prime minister副总理；副首相

cabinet minister n. 大臣；阁僚

interior minister内政部长

minister of education教育部长

minister of state国务大臣

commerce minister商业部长

home minister内政部长

assistant minister部长助理

minister counselor公使

双语例句

用作名词(n.)

The president gave his minister carte blanche in foreign affairs.
总统把处理外交事务的全权授予他的公使。

He was elected Minister of Education.
他被选为教育部长。

The minister can only act in this matter with the sanction of Parliament.
部长只有得到国会批准才能就此事采取行动。

The Chancellor of the Exchequer is the minister in charge of finance in Britain.
英国财政大臣是负责财政的大臣。

The minister preached a sermon on humility.
牧师就谦恭的问题布道。

用作动词(v.)

I have to minister to my mother all the time.
我不得不一直照料我的母亲。

She felt it was her vocation to minister to the sick.
她觉得照料病人是她的天职。

权威例句

minister

minister: [13] Etymologically, a minister is a person of ‘lower’ status, a ‘servant’. The word goes back via Old French ministre to Latin minister ‘servant, attendant’, which was derived from minus ‘less’. It retained this meaning when it arrived in English, and indeed it still survives in the verb minister. But already by the Middle Ages a specialized application to a ‘church functionary’ had developed, and in the 16th century this hardened into the present-day ‘clergyman’.The political sense of the word developed in the 17th century, from the notion of a ‘servant’ of the crown. Derivatives from other languages to have established themselves in English include métier [18], which came via French from Vulgar Latin *misterium, an alteration of Latin ministerium ‘service’ (source of English ministry [14]), and minstrel.And etymologically, minister is the antonym of master, whose Latin ancestor was based on magis ‘more’.=> métier, minstrel, minus

minister (v.)

early 14c., "to perform religious rites, provide religious services;" mid-14c., "to serve (food or drink);" late 14c. "render service or aid," from Old French menistrer "to serve, be of service, administer, attend, wait on," and directly from Latin ministrare "to serve, attend, wait upon" (see minister (n.)). Related: Ministered; ministering.

minister (n.)

c. 1300, "one who acts upon the authority of another," from Old French menistre "servant, valet, member of a household staff, administrator, musician, minstrel" (12c.), from Latin minister (genitive ministri) "inferior, servant, priest's assistant" (in Medieval Latin, "priest"), from minus, minor "less," hence "subordinate," (see minus) + comparative suffix *-teros. Formed on model of magister. Meaning "priest" is attested in English from early 14c. Political sense of "high officer of the state" is attested from 1620s, from notion of "service to the crown."

1. He solicited aid from the minister.

他请求部长给他以支持。

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2. The minister complained that the newspapers had misquoted him.

部长抱怨说报纸错误地引用了他的讲话。

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3. The minister of foreign affairs has redesigned a new foreign policy.

外交部长已重新制订了一套新外交政策。

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4. Now he holds the office of Foreign Minister.

他现在担任外交部长职务。

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5. But this minister!

可是这位牧师！

6. It impinges on everyone from the Minister to the farmer.

它影响着每一个人，从部长到农民。

7. No one spoke to him, not even the Minister.

没有一个人和他谈话，连大臣也不曾和他谈话。

8. In gentle tones, the minister advised me on “how to talk with the smallest ones” about what recently befell us.

教育部长以委婉的语气，建议我“如何对最小的孩子”讲述最近发生在我们身上的惨剧。

9. And I appreciate the agreement that Minister Yang and I hold on this matter.

我赞赏杨部长和我本人在这一问题上所持的一致看法。

10. But the transportation minister refused to offer any hypothesis about what happened.

但是交通部长拒绝提供任何关于所发生事件的假说。

11. Together with the Minister of Health, he discussed the action that WHO and its partners have already taken, and what now needs to be done.

他与卫生部长一起讨论了世界卫生组织及其伙伴们已经采取的行动以及现在需要做哪些工作。

12. Yet as finance minister he earned plaudits for listening to sharp minds in the bureaucracy rather than disdaining them.

而作为内阁财政大臣他也因为愿意倾听而非蔑视那些尖锐思想而赢得了称赞。

13. If he differed from his minister, he would kill him.

如果他与他的大臣意见不同的话，他会杀了大臣。

14. The sainted minister in the church!

那位教堂中神圣的牧师！

15. On one of those ugly nights, which we have faintly hinted at, but forborne to picture forth, the minister started from his chair.

在我们微有暗示却避免进一步描绘的这样一个丑恶的夜晚，牧师从他的椅子上惊跳而起。

16. “We could not have explained to the French that we were spending money on companies but not saving jobs in France, ” says one minister.

“把钱花在这些公司身上，但却没有把工作机会留在法国，这样我们将无法向法国人交待”，一位部长表示。

17. In 2004, I received a European minister in my office and he was complaining that we should do something.

在2004年，我在办公室接见了一位欧洲部长，他抱怨说我们应该做些事情。

18. But, for all that, they were, in one sense, the truest and most substantial things which the poor minister now dealt with.

然而，尽管如此，在一种意义上，它们又都是这可怜的牧师所应付的最真实又最具体的东西。

19. Without a good minister we feel as if we aremissing our hands.

没有一个好部长，我们就觉得好像失去了左膀右臂。

20. Without a good minister we feel as if we aremissing our hands.

没有一个好部长，我们就觉得好像失去了左膀右臂。