| 单词 | rescue mission |
| 释义 | > as lemmasrescue mission rescue mission n. (a) originally U.S. a mission established by a religious group to help the underprivileged, etc.; (b) a military or other mission undertaken with the aim of rescuing a captured or stranded person. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social attitudes > philanthropy > [noun] > mission for moral or spiritual rehabilitation rescue mission1879 1879 Chicago Tribune 6 Apr. 10/6 There will be services at 3 p.m. to-day and every evening during the week at Rescue Mission, No. 81 South Canal street, near Madison. 1885 Birmingham Daily Post 8 May 8/4 Colonel Day..had been able to establish in Reading a rescue mission and home for girls. 1912 P. I. Roberts Dry Dock of Thousand Wrecks vi. 93 He has displayed all along the earmarks of a rescue mission worker. 1914 N.Y. Times 14 Aug. 1/2 (headline) Coudert on a rescue mission... Coudert left tonight with a special train..to rescue eighty Paris children in a school on the frontier. 1970 J. Blish Spock must Die! x. 77 He's not to undertake any quixotic rescue missions. 2006 Daily Tel. 27 Mar. 19/4 A cynic might think the British Government, desperate for good news in Iraq, paid a ransom for the release of the hostages and then spun it as a heroic rescue mission. < as lemmas |
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