Tra từ preach - Từ điển LongMan Dictionary

preach/priːtʃ/ verb
[date : 1200-1300; Language : Old French; Origin : prechier, from Late Latin praedicare, from Latin dicare 'to say publicly']
1. [INTRANSITIVE AND TRANSITIVE]
to talk about a religious subject in a public place, especially in a church during a service
preach to
　 ▪ Christ began preaching to large crowds.
preach on/about
　 ▪ The vicar preached a sermon about the prodigal son.
　 ▪ He traveled the southern states, preaching the gospel.

2. [TRANSITIVE]
to talk about how good or important something is and try to persuade other people about this:
　 ▪ Alexander has been preaching patience.
preach the virtues/merits/benefits of something
　 ▪ a politician preaching the virtues of a free market

3. [INTRANSITIVE]
to give someone advice, especially about their behaviour, in a way that they think is boring or annoying
preach about
　 ▪ grown-ups preaching about the evils of drugs

4. preach to the converted/choir
to talk about what you think is right or important to people who already have the same opinions as you
⇨ practise what you preach at practise(5)

verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
give/preach/deliver a sermon (on sth)
▪ The vicar gave a sermon on charity.
preach/spread the gospel (=tell people about it)
▪ Missionaries were sent to preach the Gospel.
▪ gospel stories
spread/preach the gospel
▪ spreading the gospel of science
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
NOUN
choir
▪ Not only was he preaching to the choir, he was talking to tax-cutting evangelists.
▪ He is preaching to the choir of religious-right Protestants and conservative Catholics whose votes should already be locked up.
church
▪ Rome has more churches and less preaching in them than any city in the world.
doctrine
▪ In the first place, it was quite useless to preach ready made doctrine to them.
▪ He later preached good doctrine and set the colonists to building a church.
▪ They preached the pure doctrine and pure life that Puritans had cherished ever since they formed under Elizabeth and chafed under James.
▪ It preaches the doctrine that individuals should be allowed to do anything they wish unfettered by social conventions.
gospel
▪ This means a goal of thirty viable gospel preaching churches in our town and twelve in Cranham alone.
▪ However, it was not long before the Gospel preached by Richard Baxter began to change her life.
message
▪ The first sermon she preached reiterated the message.
minister
▪ Wolsey even has his ministers preach peace sermons in London.
▪ Pentecostals love this story and their ministers frequently preach on it, for two reasons.
▪ These were the things our minister preached to us every Sunday of my early life.
sermon
▪ The sermon he preached was scholarly, and explained why he had been called to this well-found charge and to the chaplaincy.
▪ The emotional setting in which sermons could be preached was made possible by a sympathetic audience: indeed, reciprocity was essential.
▪ Patriot Patrick Henry liked to drop by to hear the recruiting sermons Davies preached, in order to learn oratory.
▪ The first sermon she preached reiterated the message.
virtue
▪ He may preach the virtues of an empty bank account, but Damon is fairly obsessed with filling his own.
VERB
begin
▪ In 1869 he sold his business and began preaching throughout Britain.
▪ After a couple of years, Philip began to preach on the streets of post-Renaissance Rome.
▪ He then began preaching Wycliffite views to enthusiastic congregations in and near the town.
▪ The rector began spontaneously to preach one of the most electrifying sermons of his career.
▪ Frequently the visitors were so numerous they could not fit into the house, so Seymour began preaching from the porch.
continue
▪ Two years later he received an order of excommunication and ignored that too in that he continued to preach.
▪ Nevertheless Seymour continued to preach and testify at black missions in Houston where he eventually met a woman named Neely Terry.
hear
▪ In those days there was little opportunity to hear Gospel preaching in Shropshire.
▪ She heard Cotton preach two covenants.
▪ Two Sundays back, I heard Sithole preach.
▪ They would have preferred to hear him preach his Lenten sermons on the necessity of self-discipline and the importance of fasting.
▪ Richard Baxter was preaching in Alcester one Sunday in September 1642 when the sound of distant canon fire was heard.
▪ The next candidate, Richard Baxter, was unanimously chosen the first time they heard him preach.
▪ How can they hear without some one preaching to them?
practice
▪ However, we don't always practice what we preach.
▪ Ulene tries to practice what he preaches, jogging and eating a low-fat diet.
▪ It's too easy to inadvertently fail to practice what we preach.
practise
▪ It is a good thing he practises what he preaches.
▪ I just wanted to see if he practised what he preached.
▪ The paper would practise what it preached.
▪ In most areas of life, he tries to practise what he preaches.
▪ It is also important to practise what you preach.
▪ The tight control on public sector pay is crucial and underlines the fact that the Government intends to practise what it preaches.
▪ And Scott the rapier-slim rapper backs up this message by practising what he preaches.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
practise what you preach
▪ And Scott the rapier-slim rapper backs up this message by practising what he preaches.
▪ Both Johnson and Lady Macleod found the book wanting, her objection being that the author did not practise what he preached.
▪ I just wanted to see if he practised what he preached.
▪ In most areas of life, he tries to practise what he preaches.
▪ It is a good thing he practises what he preaches.
▪ It is also important to practise what you preach.
▪ The paper would practise what it preached.
▪ The tight control on public sector pay is crucial and underlines the fact that the Government intends to practise what it preaches.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Mom, stop preaching - I'm old enough to take care of myself.
▪ You're always preaching honesty, and then you lie to me.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ After completing his studies, in which he excelled in philosophy and theology, he was ordained and was assigned to preaching.
▪ Campaigns that have merely preached abstinence have always failed.
▪ Gordon was preaching the morality of scholarship.
▪ He also preached at Blackfriars on Sundays and a mid-week lecture in Milk Street.
▪ His jailers realized that his ransom would exceed those of the other prisoners, so Raymond was continuously tortured for preaching.
▪ How couldst thou preach of heaven and hell in such a careless, sleepy manner?
▪ In those days there was little opportunity to hear Gospel preaching in Shropshire.
▪ Renaissance humanism preached respect for the greatness of the human being as an individual: it stressed personal intelligence and ability.