单词 | mission boy |
释义 | > as lemmasmission boy mission boy n. chiefly Australian and New Zealand a boy brought up or educated at a mission station, esp. one acting as a servant there while undergoing Christian instruction. ΚΠ 1841 J. C. Bidwill Rambles in N.Z. (1952) 43 The mission-boys were very attentive to their prayers and hymns every evening and morning. 1908 D. Blackburn Leaven 33 He was a Pondo, an educated mission boy. 1958 D. S. Leslie Green Singers 203 ‘Me not desert blackfellow!’ shrilled Jack indignantly. ‘Me mission boy!’ 1986 Financial Times 15 Mar. (Weekend) p. xiv/6 Mission boys, freed slaves and local carriers. < as lemmas |
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