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单词 bishop
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bishop
noun[C]
uk
/ˈbɪʃ.əp/us
/ˈbɪʃ.əp/

bishopnoun[C](PRIEST)

apriestof highrankwho is inchargeof thepriestsoflowerrankin aparticulararea:
主教
the BishopofDurham达勒姆主教
Bishop Desmond Tutu德斯蒙德‧图图主教
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  • theconsecrationof the new bishop
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  • The bishopcriticizedthegovernmentforits"callous,uncaringattitude" to thehomelessand theunemployed.
  • Poverty andignorance, the bishop said, were theforcesofevilinoursocietytoday.
  • The bishop'sspeechhaspromptedanangryresponsefrom bothpoliticalparties.
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bishopnoun[C](CHESS)

apiecethatmovesfromcornertocorneralongsquaresof the samecolour
（国际象棋中的）象
picture of bishop
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  • defence
  • endgame
  • forfeit
  • gambit
  • grandmaster
  • move
  • pin
  • queen
  • queenside
  • re-roll
  • resign
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(Definition ofbishopfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

bishop| American Dictionary

bishop
noun[C]
us
/ˈbɪʃ·əp/
apriestof highrankwho is inchargeof thepriestsoflowerrankin aparticulararea
In thegameofchess, a bishop is apiecethat canmoveonly in adiagonalway alongsquaresof the samecolor.
(Definition ofbishopfrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofbishop

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By 1640, the bishops held only 40 places on county commissions - half the number of 1590 and 1608.
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By 1636 the numbers were lower still : 25 bishops and 72 ministers, totalling fewer than a hundred.
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Nobles who had been married twice and therefore were unfit for an ecclesiastic career were appointed bishops through bribes, connections or both.
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Rather, it means that most bishops who meet a man bless the man.
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However, it must surely now look like a bill which the bishops wanted and for which they mobilized council support.
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The first day consisted of presentations by several bishops from the region, to provide their perspectives on regional conflict.
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See ibid. p. 121: '... bishops at their cathedrals say a homily when they lead in the penitents, and they do absolution'.
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The bishop's approach is not only extremely idiosyncratic but methodologically very intricate.
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At the same time it seems likely that the bishop's enemies exploited rather than invented the offences for which he died.
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Late medieval bishops requested prayers for the dead in language identical to the laity.
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Most of the earliest bishops' wives were uncommemorated after death.
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The bishops constructed residences analogous to those of the political and social aristocracy.
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Secondly, and most unusually for a bishop's register of this date, there is very little routine business in this volume.
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The bishops were divided on how to handle the crisis.
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The tension between bishops and their chapters was also one facet of the growing hostility between bishops and monks in general.
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