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Happy-clappy is a British way of talking about a kind of Christian church: the kind where people sing loudly, clap, shout, show their feelings, and try to bring other people in. The word is not kind. People use it when they find that style too noisy, too emotional, or too , so it carries a little mockery. You would not use it about your own church if you loved that worship; you would use it about someone else's. It is informal, a bit newspaper-like, and mostly British. Though actually, the singing and are not the whole point. The is aimed at the , recruiting, feel-good style as a package. Younger British speakers still know it; it is less common in American English, where people might say evangelical or charismatic without the joke.
又唱又跳的(帶貶義,指某些教會崇拜很嗨、很情緒化)。英式口語,台灣沒有完全對應的現成詞。
原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
happy-clappynoun
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derogatoryslangA member of a Christian church whose worship is characterized by enthusiasm and spontaneity.
happy-clappyadj
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derogatoryslangOf or relating to such a worshiper or such a church.
資料來源:英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary(CC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。