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A sermon is a talk given by a religious leader, usually in a church, temple, or similar place, teaching a moral or spiritual lesson, often based on a religious text. Outside of religion, people also use 'sermon' , a little jokingly, for any long talk where someone lectures you about how to behave — 'my dad gave me a sermon about being late.'
講道、佈道；（引申，口語）說教
組成from Latin 'sermo', meaning speech or talk
原始詞典資料4 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。
sermonnoun詞源 1/ˈsɜː.mən/
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Religious discourse; a written or spoken address on a religious or moral matter.
- One saint's day in mid-term a certain newly appointed suffragan-bishop came to the school chapel, and there preached on “The Inner Life.” He at once secured attention by his informal method, and when presently the coughing of Jarvis […] interrupted the sermon, he altogether captivated his audience with a remark about cough lozenges being cheap and easily procurable.
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A lengthy speech of reproval.
sermonverb詞源 2/ˈsɜː.mən/
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obsoleteTo discourse to or of, as in a sermon.
- January 23 1583, Edmund Spenser, letter to Walter Raleigh To some I know this methode will seem displeasaunt, which had rather have good discipline delivered plainly in way of precepts, or sermoned at large, as they use, then thus clowdily enwrapped in allegorical devises
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obsoleteTo tutor; to lecture.
- Come, sermon me no further.
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。