• n. 布道；訓(xùn)誡；啟示；冗長(zhǎng)的講話
• vt. 對(duì)…布道；對(duì)…說(shuō)教
• vi. 布道
• n. (Sermon)人名；(英)瑟蒙；(意)塞爾蒙

來(lái)自拉丁語(yǔ) sermonem,說(shuō)話，談話，討論，演說(shuō)，字面意思即把字詞組合在一起，來(lái)自 PIE*ser, 連接，排列，詞源同 serial,series,sort.-mon,名詞后綴。現(xiàn)詞義縮寫(xiě)自 sermo religiosus,說(shuō)道， 布教，字面意思即 religious sermon,宗教演說(shuō)，宗教講演。

sermon

sermon: [12] Latin sermō meant simply ‘talk, conversation, discourse’, but by the time it reached English via Anglo-Norman sermun it had narrowed down to an ‘a(chǎn)ddress given from a pulpit on a religious topic’. It is not clear what its ultimate ancestry is, but probably the favourite candidate as its source is the Indo-European base *swer-, *swar-, which gave English answer and swear.

sermon (n.)

c. 1200, sarmun, "a discourse upon a text of scripture; what is preached," from Anglo-French sermun, Old French sermon "speech, words, discourse; church sermon, homily" (10c.), from Latin sermonem (nominative sermo) "continued speech, conversation; common talk, rumor; learned talk, discourse; manner of speaking, literary style," originally "a stringing together of words," from PIE *ser-mo-, suffixed form of root *ser- (3) "to line up, join" (see series).

Main modern sense in English and French is elliptical for Latin sermo religiosus. In transferred (non-religious) use from 1590s. The Sermon on the Mount is in 5,6,7 Matt. and 6 Luke. Related: Sermonic; sermonical; sermonish.

1. At High Mass the priest preached a sermon on the devil.

牧師在大彌撒上布道驅(qū)邪。

來(lái)自柯林斯例句

2. Sometimes the rector came up and preached a sermon.

有時(shí)候教區(qū)牧師來(lái)布道.

來(lái)自《簡(jiǎn)明英漢詞典》

3. The minister preaches a sermon now and then.

牧師不時(shí)地講道.

來(lái)自《簡(jiǎn)明英漢詞典》

4. Don't preach me a sermon, please.

請(qǐng)不要對(duì)我講大道理.

來(lái)自《簡(jiǎn)明英漢詞典》

5. If I wanted to pad out my sermon a little, I might offer my congregation one of my favourite quotations.

如果我想把布道時(shí)間延長(zhǎng)一點(diǎn)兒，可能會(huì)給教眾引用一段我最喜歡的話。

來(lái)自柯林斯例句