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

• 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。
• Any building where congregations gather for prayer.
  能够聚集信徒进行祷告的地方。
• As free congregations we enter into this covenant, promising to one another our mutual trust and support.
  作为一个自由参与的团体，我们的成员都自觉地遵守以上宗旨，并立志互相信任及帮助。
• 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。
• A group of religious congregations having its own organization and a distinctive faith.
  由自己的组织和独特信仰的宗教会众团体。
• The hilltop church attracted good congregations, in spite of its inaccessibility.
  山顶教堂虽然进出困难仍吸引了大批善男信女。
• 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。
• Bless God in the congregations, Even the Lord, you who are of the fountain of Israel.
  诗68：26从以色列源头而来的、在各会中称颂主神。
• 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。
• 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。