• vt. 说教；讲道；鼓吹；传道；反复灌输
• vi. 说教；讲道；鼓吹；宣扬
• n. 说教

来自古英语predician,传道，布道，借自古法语preechier,传道，布道，来自拉丁语praedicare,公开宣称，通知，宣布，公告，来自prae,在前面，dicare,说，宣布，公告，词源同diction,predict.引申贬义词义说教。

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.

他痛斥了邀请其他大主教同仁布道的决定。

来自柯林斯例句

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

他大喊道：“不要对我说教。”

来自柯林斯例句

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

他体悟到宣讲福音是他的使命。

来自《权威词典》

4. Do not preach up such boys so much.

不要把这样一些孩子捧得太高了.

来自《简明英汉词典》

5. Don't preach me that.

不要以那件事说教我.

来自《简明英汉词典》