church

UK:  [tʃɜːtʃ]

US:  [tʃɜrtʃ]

复数：churches  过去分词：churched  现在分词：churching  

n.

1.【宗】教堂

2.【宗】教徒

3.【宗】教派

4.【宗】教会

5.【宗】礼拜

6.【宗】牧师;神父

v.

1.使(某人)去教堂接受宗教仪式

1 . He did not want to be attacked by the Christian Church. so he only published it as he lay dying in 1543.
因为他不想遭到基督教会的迫害。他仅在他去世那一年（1543）才发表他的观念。

2 . Alex wondered if other directors found it hard, as he did, to think of social causes as "inappropriate" to a church.
亚历克斯想知道其他董事是否和自己有同感，社会公益竟然同教会“不相容”，这实在令人不解。

3 . A second factor which made the Western Church prosperous was a new political stability and safety which had come to Europe.
第二个使西方教会繁荣兴旺的因素，是来到欧洲的一种新的政治稳定和安全。

4 . I always like to begin a journey on Sunday because I shall have the prayers of the church to preserve all that travel by land or by water.
我老喜欢在礼拜天起程旅行，因为无论走水路也好，走陆路也好，教堂里的祈祷将会保佑我的整个旅程。

5 . The chapels provide ample lighting; seen from the entrance of the church, the wall-pillars form a theatrical setting for the side altars.
该教堂提供充足的照明，从教堂的入口处看到，墙上的柱形成一个侧面祭坛戏剧设置。