He is as poor as a church mouse.

他一贫如洗。

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It is certain that this monastery which had a grand air both as a church and as a seignory.

可以肯定的是，这座修道院既有教堂的气派，也有修道院的气派。

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It's a big challenge for us as a church.

对于我们这样一个教堂来说，这是个不小的挑战。

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As a result,in nineteen sixty-nine, the church removed Saint Valentine's Day from its official worldwide calendar of Catholic feasts.

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He's engaging his father in to a contractual situation just as he will engage the entire English people in The Reason of Church Government.

他在使他的父亲加入这个合同,就像他使整个英国国民加入一样,我们在《教会政府的原因》里已经看到过。

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A lot of what brings me to this table and this conversation is the combination of what I do now as an ordained minister in the Presbyterian church, and what I did previously as a wilderness instructor.

促使我来这个讲堂,参与大家讨论的原因,应该是由于我的工作,我现在是长老会的受命教长，曾经是野外活动的教练。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

Unlike the Scouts, however, the Pathfinders operate as a church-based ministry, with a priority placed on community service.

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As a church, it became a cornerstone of Chicago's black community and the place where gospel music became an institution.

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Mr Duncan had been a member of the Crescent Church in Belfast for many years, latterly as a church elder.

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