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  1. 1n/ˈkrɪstʃən/follower of Jesus Christ基督徒

    A person who believes in Jesus Christ and follows what he taught.

    Christian 指相信耶穌基督、照他的教導生活的人。這個字要大寫。它可以只是講一個人的宗教身分，像填表格、聊家庭背景的時候。它也可以帶一點強調，說這個人真的照著信仰在過日子。標準用法裡，Christian 的範圍很大。天主教徒、新教徒、東正教徒都算 Christian。中文的「基督徒」在日常裡有時候只指新教那一邊，所以兩個詞不完全對得起來。宗教本身叫 Christianity，人才叫 Christian，這兩個字很容易寫混。

    示範例句 · Example

    About a third of the students at the school are Christians.

    中文翻譯大約三分之一的那所學校的學生是基督徒。

    This is the person word. It can simply name what religion someone belongs to, the way you would write it on a form or say it about your family. It can also say something stronger: that this person really tries to live by what Jesus taught. In standard use the word covers a very wide group — Catholics, Protestants and Orthodox believers are all Christians. Write it with a capital C. The religion itself is Christianity, and the two words are easy to mix up.

    常見搭配

    • become a Christian

      成為基督徒

      to start believing in and following Jesus Christ

      She became a Christian when she was twenty.

    • a practising Christian

      有在實際參與信仰生活的基督徒

      someone who actively takes part in Christian worship and life

      He is a practising Christian and helps at the church every week.

    • early Christians

      早期的基督徒

      the people who followed Jesus in the first hundreds of years

      Early Christians often met in small houses.

    • born-again Christian

      重生得救的基督徒

      someone who has had a strong personal experience of faith and has committed again to it

      After that year, he called himself a born-again Christian.

    意思相近

    believerchurchgoerfollower of Christ

    意思相反

    non-Christianatheist

  2. 2a/ˈkrɪstʃən/of the Christian religion基督教的

    Connected with the Christian religion — with its beliefs, its churches, its books, its music, or the people who follow it.

    這個 Christian 放在名詞前面，說明那樣東西屬於基督教。像 the Christian church、a Christian school、Christian music、a Christian minister。它就只是一個標籤，沒有稱讚也沒有批評的意思。要大寫。這是最常見、最中性的形容詞用法。日常看到 Christian 加一個名詞，多半就是這一種。宗教本身是 Christianity，形容詞才是 Christian，寫的時候要分清楚。

    Here the word sits in front of a noun and says which religion that thing belongs to: the Christian church, a Christian school, Christian music, a Christian minister. It is a plain label. It does not praise the thing and it does not criticise it. Keep the capital C. This is the everyday adjective, so if you are not sure which adjective sense you are looking at, this is usually the one.

    常見搭配

    • the Christian church

      基督教會

      the Christian religion as a body of believers, or a church building of that religion

      The Christian church has changed a lot over the years.

    • the Christian religion

      基督教

      Christianity

      The book explains the Christian religion for beginners.

    • a Christian minister

      基督教的牧師

      someone whose job is to lead a Christian church

      A Christian minister spoke at the school on Friday.

    • Christian music

      基督教音樂

      songs written for or about the Christian faith

      She listens to Christian music while she studies.

    意思相近

    religiouschurch

    意思相反

    non-Christiansecular

  3. 3a/ˈkrɪstʃən/kind and decent厚道

    Kind, fair and decent in the way you treat other people. Used about how someone acts, not about what religion they belong to, and often written with a small c.

    這個用法跟一個人信什麼宗教沒有關係。它在講一個人待人厚不厚道。背後的想法可以想成：基督教教人要善待別人，久了之後，「很 Christian」就被拿來說「很有良心、很厚道」。最常出現在兩種句子裡。一種是稱讚：That is very Christian of you。一種是責備：That was not a very Christian thing to do。責備那一種特別常見，語氣像長輩在唸你，不算重話。例句把它寫成小寫的 christian，可見它離宗教已經有一段距離了。

    This use says nothing about a person's faith. It says the act was a decent one. The idea behind it can be thought of like this: Christian teaching tells people to be kind, so a kind act gets called a Christian act. You meet it most often in two shapes. One is praise: That's very Christian of you. The other is a complaint: That wasn't a very Christian thing to do. The complaining shape is common, and it lands as a soft telling-off rather than an insult. The example itself writes it with a small c, which shows how far this use has moved from the religion.

    常見搭配

    • very Christian of you

      你這樣做很厚道

      said to praise someone for a kind or generous act

      You gave her your umbrella? That's very Christian of you.

    • a christian thing to do

      厚道的行為

      an action that is kind and decent

      Sharing your lunch with him was a christian thing to do.

    • not a very christian way to behave

      這樣做人不太厚道

      used to say gently that someone acted unkindly

      Laughing at her mistake was not a very christian way to behave.