congregations

英 [ˌkɒŋgrɪˈgeɪʃənz]

美 [ˌkɑŋgrəˈgeɪʃənz]

n.  (教堂的)会众; (从属某教堂并定期做礼拜的)教堂会众
congregation的复数

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT-COLL 教堂会众
  The people who are attending a church service or who regularly attend a church service are referred to as thecongregation.
  1. Most members of the congregation begin arriving a few minutes before services.
     礼拜仪式开始前几分钟，大部分教堂会众陆续到来。

双语例句

• When they're anti-family, they often tend to allow women bigger roles in their congregations.
  如果是反家庭的经文，经常都会赋与女人更重要的角色，在教会中。
• Although many of its early graduates became ministers in Puritan congregations throughout New England, the college never formally affiliated with a specific religious denomination.
  尽管许多早期的毕业生成为新英格兰清教教会的高级官员。
• It is always a heart-breaking thing to see these congregations of men robed in black, murmuring together in low voices, on the threshold of the halls of justice.
  看见这些成群的黑衣人立在公堂门前低声耳语，那总是件令人寒心的事。
• All seminarians who have not taken examinations were told to return to their respective dioceses or congregations within three days, Church sources said.
  他们说，董事会又决定修生提前放暑假，在三天之内离院，返回所属的教区或修会。还没有参加期末考试的修生在当天下午已陆续离去。
• His favorite activity was taking teams of volunteers overseas to build church buildings for small congregations.
  他最喜欢做的事，就是带领义工队到世界各地为小教会建造教堂。
• Most feel hurt by anti-gay attitudes expressed by friends, neighbors, classmates, or church and temple congregations& and rejected by teasing about having a gay dad.
  当有邻居朋友同学或是教友表明反对同性恋的态度时，绝大多数感到很受伤害&当他有一个同志爸爸而遭嘲笑和拒绝时。
• Lesser Flamingos are very mobile, and depend on a chain of suitable feeding sites that can support very large congregations – more than a million birds on occasion.
  小火烈鸟移动性很强，依赖于合适的取食地，有时会有多大百万只的大群集结。
• His first sermon was delivered, in heavily-accented English, by the River Thames in Petersham, but congregations did not respond to him.
  在皮特舍姆的泰晤士河畔，他用地方口音浓重的英语首次布道，但信众却没有任何响应。
• The Congregation of the Immaculate Heart of Mary was one of the important congregations by which Catholicism transmited in china in modern society.
  圣母圣心会是近代西方天主教势力在华传教的一个重要修会。
• Any building where congregations gather for prayer.
  能够聚集信徒进行祷告的地方。