• vt. 說教；講道；鼓吹；傳道；反復灌輸
• vi. 說教；講道；鼓吹；宣揚
• n. 說教

來自古英語predician,傳道，布道，借自古法語preechier,傳道，布道，來自拉丁語praedicare,公開宣稱，通知，宣布，公告，來自prae,在前面，dicare,說，宣布，公告，詞源同diction,predict.引申貶義詞義說教。

preach

preach: [13] Preach goes back ultimately to Latin praedicāre ‘proclaim’ (source also of English predicament and predicate). Its Old French descendant was prechier, whence English preach (English had actually acquired the word before, directly from Latin in the Anglo-Saxon period, as predician ‘preach’, but this had died out before the Old French word arrived). The semantic shift in the Latin verb from ‘proclaiming’ to ‘preaching’ took place in the early Christian period.
=> predicament, predicate

preach (v.)

at first in late Old English predician, a loan word from Church Latin; reborrowed 12c. as preachen, from Old French preechier "to preach, give a sermon" (11c., Modern French précher), from Late Latin praedicare "to proclaim publicly, announce" (in Medieval Latin "to preach"), from Latin prae "before" (see pre-) + dicare "to proclaim, to say" (see diction). Related: Preached; preaching. To preach to the converted is recorded from 1867 (form preach to the choir attested from 1979).

1. He denounced the decision to invite his fellow archbishop to preach.

他痛斥了邀請其他大主教同仁布道的決定。

來自柯林斯例句

2. "Don't preach at me," he shouted.

他大喊道：“不要對我說教。”

來自柯林斯例句

3. He realized that his calling was to preach the gospel.

他體悟到宣講福音是他的使命。

來自《權威詞典》

4. Do not preach up such boys so much.

不要把這樣一些孩子捧得太高了.

來自《簡明英漢詞典》

5. Don't preach me that.

不要以那件事說教我.

來自《簡明英漢詞典》