| 单词 | mission |
| 释义 | Word Frequency mission(ˈmɪʃən) noun 1. a specific task or duty assigned to a person or group of people their mission was to irrigate the desert 2. a person's vocation (often in the phrase mission in life) 3. a group of persons representing or working for a particular country, business, etc, in a foreign country 4. a. a special embassy sent to a foreign country for a specific purpose b. US a permanent legation 5. a. a group of people sent by a religious body, esp a Christian church, to a foreign country to do religious and social work b. the campaign undertaken by such a group 6. a. the work or calling of a missionary b. a building or group of buildings in which missionary work is performed c. the area assigned to a particular missionary 7. the dispatch of aircraft or spacecraft to achieve a particular task 8. a church or chapel that has no incumbent of its own 9. a charitable centre that offers shelter, aid, or advice to destitute or underprivileged people 10. (modifier) of or relating to an ecclesiastical mission a mission station 11. South Africa a long and difficult process 12. (modifier) US (of furniture) in the style of the early Spanish missions of the southwestern US verb 13. (transitive) to direct a mission to or establish a mission in (a given region) Word origin C16: from Latin missiō, from mittere to send |
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