• n. 布道；訓誡；啟示；冗長的講話
• vt. 對…布道；對…說教
• vi. 布道
• n. (Sermon)人名；(英)瑟蒙；(意)塞爾蒙

來自拉丁語 sermonem,說話，談話，討論，演說，字面意思即把字詞組合在一起，來自 PIE*ser, 連接，排列，詞源同 serial,series,sort.-mon,名詞后綴。現詞義縮寫自 sermo religiosus,說道， 布教，字面意思即 religious sermon,宗教演說，宗教講演。

sermon

sermon: [12] Latin sermō meant simply ‘talk, conversation, discourse’, but by the time it reached English via Anglo-Norman sermun it had narrowed down to an ‘address given from a pulpit on a religious topic’. It is not clear what its ultimate ancestry is, but probably the favourite candidate as its source is the Indo-European base *swer-, *swar-, which gave English answer and swear.

sermon (n.)

c. 1200, sarmun, "a discourse upon a text of scripture; what is preached," from Anglo-French sermun, Old French sermon "speech, words, discourse; church sermon, homily" (10c.), from Latin sermonem (nominative sermo) "continued speech, conversation; common talk, rumor; learned talk, discourse; manner of speaking, literary style," originally "a stringing together of words," from PIE *ser-mo-, suffixed form of root *ser- (3) "to line up, join" (see series).

Main modern sense in English and French is elliptical for Latin sermo religiosus. In transferred (non-religious) use from 1590s. The Sermon on the Mount is in 5,6,7 Matt. and 6 Luke. Related: Sermonic; sermonical; sermonish.

1. At High Mass the priest preached a sermon on the devil.

牧師在大彌撒上布道驅邪。

來自柯林斯例句

2. Sometimes the rector came up and preached a sermon.

有時候教區牧師來布道.

來自《簡明英漢詞典》

3. The minister preaches a sermon now and then.

牧師不時地講道.

來自《簡明英漢詞典》

4. Don't preach me a sermon, please.

請不要對我講大道理.

來自《簡明英漢詞典》

5. If I wanted to pad out my sermon a little, I might offer my congregation one of my favourite quotations.

如果我想把布道時間延長一點兒，可能會給教眾引用一段我最喜歡的話。

來自柯林斯例句