minister

英 ['mɪnɪstə] 美['mɪnɪstɚ]

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近义词clergyman guide spiritual pastor chaplain

n. 部长；大臣；牧师
vi. 执行牧师职务；辅助或伺候某人

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中文词源

minister 部长，大臣

来自古法语menistre,仆人，奴才，管家，臣子，来自拉丁语minister,仆人，下属，下等人，来自minus,下等的，次等的，-ter,比较级后缀。后用于指现代政府的部长，大臣。比较marshall.

minister 部长，大臣

词态变化

复数: ministers;

英文词源

minister: minister: [13] Etymologically, a minister is a person of ‘lower’ status, a ‘servant’. The word goes back via Old French ministre to Latin minister ‘servant, attendant’, which was derived from minus ‘less’. It retained this meaning when it arrived in English, and indeed it still survives in the verb minister. But already by the Middle Ages a specialized application to a ‘church functionary’ had developed, and in the 16th century this hardened into the present-day ‘clergyman’.

The political sense of the word developed in the 17th century, from the notion of a ‘servant’ of the crown. Derivatives from other languages to have established themselves in English include métier [18], which came via French from Vulgar Latin *misterium, an alteration of Latin ministerium ‘service’ (source of English ministry [14]), and minstrel.

And etymologically, minister is the antonym of master, whose Latin ancestor was based on magis ‘more’.
=> métier, minstrel, minus
minister (v.): early 14c., "to perform religious rites, provide religious services;" mid-14c., "to serve (food or drink);" late 14c. "render service or aid," from Old French menistrer "to serve, be of service, administer, attend, wait on," and directly from Latin ministrare "to serve, attend, wait upon" (see minister (n.)). Related: Ministered; ministering.
minister (n.): c. 1300, "one who acts upon the authority of another," from Old French menistre "servant, valet, member of a household staff, administrator, musician, minstrel" (12c.), from Latin minister (genitive ministri) "inferior, servant, priest's assistant" (in Medieval Latin, "priest"), from minus, minor "less," hence "subordinate," (see minus) + comparative suffix *-teros. Formed on model of magister. Meaning "priest" is attested in English from early 14c. Political sense of "high officer of the state" is attested from 1620s, from notion of "service to the crown."

双语例句

1. The Prime Minister has been briefed by her parliamentary aides.: 首相已听取了她议会助手的简要汇报。

2. The carpet was a wedding present from the Prime Minister.: 这张地毯是首相送的结婚礼物。

3. There is good news of a kind for the Prime Minister.: 对总理来说也算是有个好消息。

4. The Prime Minister has promised that Israel will play a constructive role.: 首相承诺以色列将发挥积极的作用。

5. He put the case to the Saudi Foreign Minister.: 他把这起事件向沙特外长作了说明。

英英释意

1. a person authorized to conduct religious worship

2. a person appointed to a high office in the government;: "Minister of Finance"

3. a diplomat representing one government to another; ranks below ambassador

4. the job of a head of a government department

考试真题

Defense minister Farhat Horchani said last week that German and American security experts were expected to come to help Tunisia devise a new electronic video-supervision system on its border with Libya.

The roots of his speech, given in March at the roundtable meeting of environment and energy ministers from the G20 group of nations, stretch back to 1972, and the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment in Stockholm.

The prime minister denied there was a connection between his news adviser's outside interests and the change in legislative programme.

Prime Minister Cameron has been reluctant to take action.

In November 2013, after an unnecessary round of additional consultation, health minister Jane Ellison said the government was minded to proceed after all.

minister of social security, quickly commissioned a study to determine the causes of and possible cures for this disturbing stale of affairs.

He has been successfully elected Prime Minister.

given the moth's ability also to attack crops like pepper and potatoes, Audu Ogbeh, Nigeria's minister of agriculture, has warned that the pest may "create serious problems for food security" in the country.

Helen Mirren stars in the play by Peter Morgan, about queen Elizabeth II of the UK and her private meetings with twelve prime ministers in the course of sixty years.

How much would a mother earn a year if working as the prime minister?

This month, Germany's transport minister, Alexander Dobrindt, proposed the first set of rules for autonomous vehicles.

This would make their yearly income ￡30, 000 more than the Prime Minister earns.

The most thoroughly studied in the history of the new world are the ministers and political leaders of seventeenth-century New England.

Besides the ninety or so learned ministers who came to Massachusetts church in the decade after 1629,There were political leaders like John Winthrop, an educated gentleman, lawyer, and official of the Crown before he journeyed to Boston.

European ministers instantly demanded that the International Accounting Standards Board ( ' , IASB) do likewise.

The communities minister, Don Foster, has hinted that George Osborne, Chancellor of the Exchequer, may introduce more flexibility to the current cap on the amount that local authorities can borrow against their housing stock debt.

实用场景例句

the Minister of Education: 教育部长

a meeting of EU Foreign Ministers: 欧盟外交部长会议

senior ministers in the Cabinet: 内阁中的高级部长

cabinet ministers: 内阁部长

a Methodist minister: 循道宗牧师

When the government had come to power, he had been named minister of culture...: 这届政府开始执政的时候，他被任命为文化部部长。

The new Defence Minister is Senator Robert Ray.: 新任国防部部长是参议员罗伯特·雷。

He concluded a deal with the Danish minister in Washington.: 他与驻华盛顿的丹麦公使签订了一项协议。

His father was a Baptist minister.: 他的父亲是浸礼会牧师。

For 44 years he had ministered to the poor, the sick, the neglected and the deprived.: 44年来，他一直致力于帮助那些穷人、病人、无人照料的人和失去生活依靠的人。

Tell your brother to be quick.: 告诉你兄弟要快.

Ade has been widely tipped as the Prime Minister.: 很多人认为艾德将继任首相.

The minister appealed to the Cabinet not to target her comparatively tiny budget of ￡4 billion.: 那位部长呼吁内阁不要以她40亿英镑这样相对小额的预算为批评目标.

The Prime Minister has made a statement closely approximate to a falsehood.: 首相发表了一项几近谎言的声明.

The education minister personally persuaded the prime minister to rethink.: 教育部长亲自劝首相再考虑一下.

The minister preached against evil.: 牧师规戒人们勿起邪念.

The minister gave out the wrong number of the rooms.: 部长把房间的号码通知错了.

The minister has consistently opposed any relaxation in the law.: 部长一向反对法律上的任何放宽.

The man with the umbrella will be the Prime Minister.: 拿着雨伞的那个人准是首相.

The Minister hit out against trade union leaders.: 部长猛烈攻击工会领袖们.

A serious charge was leveled against the minister.: 那位部长受到了严重指控.

He obtained a government position through interest with a cabinet minister.: 他靠内阁中一部长的力量而谋得一公职.

The delegation was headed by our Foreign Minister.: 这个代表团由我们的外交部长任团长.

The plan was unveiled with the approval from the Minister.: 经部长同意该计划被公之于众.

The cabinet are agreed by the Prime Minister.: 内阁成员和首相的意见一致.

He served briefly as prime minister from 1920 to 1921.: 他在1920到1921年间曾短期出任过首相.

a close ally and friend of the prime minister: 首相的一个亲密盟友和伙伴

The Teflon Prime Minister has survived another crisis.: 不倒翁首相又挺过了一次危机。

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