Quaker的意思

Quaker

基本解释

n. 教友派信徒；贵格会教徒

Quaker 贵格会教徒

基督教分支Religious Society of Friends的别称。来自quake,颤抖，即在上帝前颤抖之意，来自该教创始人对其教徒的警告和规劝”tremble at the Word of the Lord”.

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.

1. William Penn wrote in the cool, charitable vein of the Quaker faith.: 威廉·佩恩以较左派冷静宽仁的特性写作.

2. There was a gentle bustle at the Quaker house, as the afternoon drew to a close.: 傍晚时分,一个教友会信徒家正在忙个不休.

3. A Quaker child in an inimical New England settlement is stoned by the other children.: 一个教友会的孩子,在敌视他的新英格兰村落里,被别的孩子用石头打了.

4. Do you know anything about the Quakers, the Quaker religion?: 你知道教友派信徒吗, 教友派教条?

5. I asked one friend, who is a Quaker, what the U.: 我问一位教友派信徒的朋友, 对希特勒这样的人美国应该怎么办.