mission

• n. 使命，任务；代表团；布道
• vt. 派遣；向……传教

1. an organization of missionaries in a foreign land sent to carry on religious work

2. an operation that is assigned by a higher headquarters;

"the planes were on a bombing mission"

3. a special assignment that is given to a person or group;

"a confidential mission to London"

"his charge was deliver a message"

4. the organized work of a religious missionary

5. a group of representatives or delegates

My mission is to encourage green hands and those lacking time or money to feed themselves.

出自-2015年12月阅读原文

Moon Express's mission involves plans to land a suitcase-sized package of scientific equipment on the moon for ongoing exploration and commercial development.

2018年6月四级真题（第一套）听力 Section A

The first private mission outside of Earth's orbit is closer than many of us think.

2018年6月四级真题（第一套）听力 Section A

Our mission is to promote, protect and advance the social work profession.

出自-2016年12月听力原文

Its primary mission is to enhance human well-being and help meet the basic needs of all people, with the particular focus on those who are vulnerable, oppressed and living in poverty.

出自-2016年12月听力原文

This mission depends on traditions of rational discourse and vigorous defense of the scientific method.

出自-2014年6月阅读原文

There was no grand follow-up to the Apollo missions.

出自-2013年12月阅读原文

This year's shuttle mission is a big step in space exploration.

出自-2011年12月听力原文

The man is well informed about the space shuttle missions.

出自-2011年12月听力原文

The very first thing that scientists discovered with the mission to another planet was that Venus was not at all the earthly paradise that fiction had portrayed.

2019年6月六级真题（第二套）听力 Section C

My ten-year-old was growing and changing right before my eyes, into this determined human being with a passion and a mission.

2016年高考英语天津卷 完形填空 原文

Residential buildings must maintain an atmosphere that supports the academic mission of the university.

2015年高考英语天津卷 阅读理解 阅读A 原文

If you and I parachuted back to Fortune 500 companies in 1990, we would see much less frequent use of terms like journey, mission, passion.

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a trade mission to China

赴华贸易使命

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a fact-finding mission

核查事实的工作

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a mercy mission to aid homeless refugees

帮助无家可归的难民的慈善工作

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the head of the British mission in Berlin

在柏林的英国使团团长

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a Catholic mission in Africa

在非洲的天主教传教士

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Gandhi's attitude to mission and conversion

甘地对于布道和改变信仰的态度

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Her mission in life was to work with the homeless.

她以帮助无家可归者为己任。

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The squadron flew on a reconnaissance mission.

这支空军中队执行一项侦察任务。

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a US space mission

美国的太空飞行

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mission control (= the people on earth who control and communicate with the people on the mission )

太空飞行的地面指挥人员

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It's a mission to get there.

一路上要经历艰辛才能到达那里。

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We had to mission round all the bars until we found him.

我们跑遍了所有的酒吧才找到他。

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Salisbury sent him on a diplomatic mission to North America...

索尔兹伯里派他到北美执行一项外交任务。

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He has been on a mission to help end Lebanon's political crisis.

他已经被派执行一项旨在帮助结束黎巴嫩政治危机的使命。

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...the head of the mission in South Africa.

驻南非代表团团长

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...a senior member of a diplomatic mission.

外交使团的高级成员

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...a bomber that crashed during a training mission in the west Texas mountains.

在得克萨斯州西部山区执行训练任务时坠毁的轰炸机

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...the first shuttle mission.

首次航天飞行任务

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He viewed his mission in life as protecting the weak from the evil...

他认为自己毕生的使命就是保护弱者不受邪恶势力的欺凌。

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There is an enormous sense of mission in his speech and gesture.

他的一言一行都带着强烈的使命感。

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They say God spoke to them and told them to go on a mission to the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere.

他们说上帝让他们去西半球最贫困的国家传播教义。

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I reside at the mission at St Michael's.

我住在圣·米歇尔教堂的传道会里。

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...schools, monasteries and other mission buildings.

学校、修道院及其他布道场所

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What do you like to do in your spare time?

空闲时你喜欢干什么?

辞典例句

She was sent on a special mission to Belgrade.

她被派往贝尔格莱德,负有特殊使命.

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来自拉丁语mittere,送出，词源同emit,commit,-ss,过去分词后缀。引申词义使命，使团。

1. Their mission is simply to scout out places where helicopters can land.

他们的任务只是找到能够让直升机着陆的地方。

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2. There is an enormous sense of mission in his speech and gesture.

他的一言一行都带着强烈的使命感。

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3. His function is vital to the accomplishment of the agency's mission.

要完成该机构的使命，他的作用至关重要。

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4. I was heading on a secret mission that made my flesh crawl.

我正要执行一项让我心惊肉跳的秘密任务。

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5. Even as a humanitarian mission it has been only a qualified success.

即便是作为一次人道主义行动，它也不过是取得了有限的成功。

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mission

mission: [16] Mission, etymologically a ‘sending’, is the hub of a large family of English words that come from the Latin verb mittere ‘let go, send’ or its stem miss-. Most are prefixed forms – admit, commit, permit, promise, transmit, etc – but the unadorned verb is represented in mass ‘eucharist’, mess, missile [17] (literally ‘something capable of being sent’), mission itself and its derivative missionary [17], and missive [15] (‘something sent’).

The source of mittere is not known, but what does seem clear is that it originally meant ‘let go, throw’. This subsequently developed to ‘send’ and, in the post-classical period, to ‘put’ (hence French metre ‘put’).
=> admit, commit, mess, message, missile, missive, permit, promise, submit, transmit

mission (n.)

1590s, "a sending abroad," originally of Jesuits, from Latin missionem (nominative missio) "act of sending, a despatching; a release, a setting at liberty; discharge from service, dismissal," noun of action from past participle stem of mittere "to send," oldest form probably *smittere, of unknown origin.

Diplomatic sense of "body of persons sent to a foreign land on commercial or political business" is from 1620s. In American English, sometimes "an embassy" (1805). Meaning "dispatch of an aircraft on a military operation" (1929, American English) later extended to spacecraft flights (1962), hence, mission control (1964). As a style of furniture, said to be imitative of furniture in the buildings of original Spanish missions to North America, it is attested from 1900.