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单词 mission boy
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mission boy
mission boy n. chiefly Australian and New Zealand a boy brought up or educated at a mission station, esp. one acting as a servant there while undergoing Christian instruction.
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1841 J. C. Bidwill Rambles in N.Z. (1952) 43 The mission-boys were very attentive to their prayers and hymns every evening and morning.
1908 D. Blackburn Leaven 33 He was a Pondo, an educated mission boy.
1958 D. S. Leslie Green Singers 203 ‘Me not desert blackfellow!’ shrilled Jack indignantly. ‘Me mission boy!’
1986 Financial Times 15 Mar. (Weekend) p. xiv/6 Mission boys, freed slaves and local carriers.
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