| 释义 |
‖ Pfarrer, n.|ˈpfarər|
[Ger.]
In Germany and other German-speaking areas: a minister, priest, or pastor; also used as a title, ‘father’.
1844Thackeray Barry Lyndon (1853) I. vii. 157 Having informed me that the Pfarrer of Rumpelwitz was dead, [he] asked whether I would like to have my name placed upon the candidate list. 1891A. de F. S. Kneipp's My Water-Cure p. xviii, It is evident that in Germany, at least, Pfarrer Kneipp's cure is going to influence the present state of medicine to a considerable extent. 1937M. Sadleir These Foolish Things i. v. 105, I accompanied them to their Lutheran Church and wilted under the protracted thunders of the most fashionable Pfarrer of Berlin West. 1939Joyce Finnegans Wake (1964) 161 Our Old Party quite united round the Slatbowel at Commons: Pfarrer Salamoss himself and that sprog of a Pedersill [etc.]. 1980A. Alpers Life K. Mansfield v. 95 Wörishofen had become well known in the 1880's for the Wasserkur of Pfarrer Sebastian Kneipp, a Roman Catholic priest who propounded there a system of nature therapy. |