(verb.) speak, plead, or argue in favor of; 'The doctor advocated a smoking ban in the entire house'.
(verb.) deliver a sermon; 'The minister is not preaching this Sunday'.
伊迪丝录入
双语例句
I could not preach but to the educated; to those who were capable of estimating my composition. 简·奥斯汀.曼斯菲尔德庄园.
But I should like to see Mr. Farebrother and hear him preach. 乔治·艾略特.米德尔马契.
But all men cannot preach or teach; doctrine is but one of many of the functions of life that are fundamentally righteous. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯.世界史纲.
I wish it had been smashed up when its day was over, not left to preach the beloved past to us. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯.恋爱中的女人.
He had a passion for the argumentative conversion of heretics, and he was commissioned by Pope Innocent III to go and preach to the Albigenses. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯.世界史纲.
I first got an idea of its calibre when I heard him preach in his own church at Morton. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特.简·爱.
I won't preach any more, and I'd like to hear the news immensely. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特.小妇人.
Sick people can't bear so much praying and preaching. 乔治·艾略特.米德尔马契.
This other gentleman is in the preaching line, I think? 查尔斯·狄更斯.荒凉山庄.
Then, his preaching was ingenious and pithy, like the preaching of the English Church in its robust age, and his sermons were delivered without book. 乔治·艾略特.米德尔马契.
But if you must go on preaching, keep it till after dinner, when it will send me to sleep, and help my digestion. 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔.南方与北方.
But it lies not in the preaching of a doctrine or the insistence on some particular change in conduct. 沃尔特·李普曼.政治序论.
Ye have been present neither at the prayer nor preaching, ma'am, if I have observed aright. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特.雪莉.
He can do it by thy silence as well as by thy preaching; thy laying aside as well as thy continuance in thy work. 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔.南方与北方.
It is gravely and well preached, O daughter of Sirach! 沃尔特·司各特.艾凡赫.
It preached Romanism; it persuaded to conversion. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特.维莱特.
He preached, unmolested by the Moslems, be it noted, in Egypt and Palestine, though the Fifth Crusade was then in progress. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯.世界史纲.
It is preached; it is lectured; it is written about. 约翰·杜威.民主与教育.
A magnificent sermon was preached by my gifted friend on the heathen indifference of the world to the sinfulness of little sins. 威尔基·柯林斯.月亮宝石.
Many wise and true sermons are preached us every day by unconscious ministers in street, school, office, or home. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特.小妇人.
In Capernaum he had preached in the synagogue. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯.世界史纲.
I sent them away, after arresting a rascal amongst them, whom I hope to transport--a fellow who preaches at the chapel yonder sometimes. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特.雪莉.