Quaker
英 ['kweikə]
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1. 貴格會（Quakers，通用名稱），又名教友派、公誼會（ the Religious Society of Friends，正式名稱），興起於17世紀中期的英國及其美洲殖民地，創立者為喬治·福克斯。“貴格”為英語Quaker一詞之音譯，意為顫抖者。
2. 因貴格會建立之初，在聚會時常有人激動得顫抖而得名，究其名稱由來，一種說法是其建立者喬治·福克斯在一次宗教裁判時，警告法官將在上帝麵前顫抖，另外的人士則認為該名字與身體的顫抖或是貴格會的宗教經驗有關。而公誼會（Friends Church）一名，是根據約翰福音十五章13-15節之經訓而來的。耶穌說：”人為朋友舍命，人的愛心沒有比這個大的。你們若遵行我所吩咐的，就是我的朋友了。以後我不再稱你們為仆人，因仆人不知道主人所做的事；我乃稱你們為朋友。”
中文詞源
Quaker 貴格會教徒基督教分支Religious Society of Friends的別稱。來自quake,顫抖，即在上帝前顫抖之意，來自該教創始人對其教徒的警告和規勸”tremble at the Word of the Lord”.
英文詞源
- Quaker (n.)
- 1651, said to have been applied to them in 1650 by Justice Bennett at Derby, from George Fox's admonition to his followers to "tremble at the Word of the Lord;" but the word was used earlier of foreign sects given to fits of shaking during religious fervor, and that is likely the source here. Either way, it never was an official name of the Religious Society of Friends. The word in a literal sense is attested from early 15c., an agent noun from quake (v.).
There is not a word in the Scripture, to put David's condition into rime and meeter: sometimes he quaked and trembled, and lay roaring all the day long, that he watered his bed with his tears: and how can you sing these conditions (but dishonour the Lord) and say all your bones quake, your flesh trembled, and that you water your bed with your tears? when you live in pride and haughtiness, and pleasure, and wantonness;" etc. ["A Brief Discovery of a threefold estate of Antichrist Now Extant in the world, etc.," an early Quaker work, London, 1653]
Quaker gun (1809, American English) was a log painted black and propped up to look from a distance like a cannon, so called for the sect's noted pacifism. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, has been known as the Quaker City since at least 1824. Related: Quakerish; Quakeress ("a female Quaker"); Quakerism.
雙語例句
- 1. William Penn wrote in the cool, charitable vein of the Quaker faith.
- 威廉·佩恩以較左派冷靜寬仁的特性寫作.
來自辭典例句
- 2. There was a gentle bustle at the Quaker house, as the afternoon drew to a close.
- 傍晚時分,一個教友會信徒家正在忙個不休.
來自辭典例句
- 3. A Quaker child in an inimical New England settlement is stoned by the other children.
- 一個教友會的孩子,在敵視他的新英格蘭村落裏,被別的孩子用石頭打了.
來自辭典例句
- 4. Do you know anything about the Quakers, the Quaker religion?
- 你知道教友派信徒嗎, 教友派教條?
來自電影對白
- 5. I asked one friend, who is a Quaker, what the U.
- 我問一位教友派信徒的朋友, 對希特勒這樣的人美國應該怎麽辦.
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