mission
任务,使命,使命感,宗旨
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Definitions
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- : a group or committee of persons sent to a foreign country to conduct negotiations, establish relations, provide scientific and technical assistance, or the like.
- : the business with which such a group is charged.
- : any important task or duty that is assigned, allotted, or self-imposed: Our mission is to find the child a safe home.
- : an important goal or purpose that is accompanied by strong conviction; a calling or vocation: She has finally found her mission in life.
- : a sending or being sent for some duty or purpose.
- : those sent.
- : Also called foreign mission . a permanent diplomatic establishment abroad; embassy; legation.
- : Military. an operational task, usually assigned by a higher headquarters: a mission to bomb the bridge.
- : Aerospace. an operation designed to carry out the goals of a specific program: a space mission.
- : Also called foreign mission . a group of persons sent by a church to carry on religious work, especially evangelization in foreign lands, and often to establish schools, hospitals, etc.
- : an establishment of missionaries in a foreign land; a missionary church or station.
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Examples
I think we need a new agency whose sole mission is fire risk reduction.
If that’s the core mission, stopping the growth engine is the worst thing you can do, you end up treading water.
NASA already has two prospective Venus missions in the works.
America has successfully launched national innovation missions time and again.
I didn’t care where I had to look—I was on a mission for the National Zoo.
We knew that many academics today would consider our mission naïve.
As the fight raged on, Ahmed and the three women fighters who were part of the mission, sent out calls for help.
Some pilots consider the infrared marker to be crucial to the close air-support mission to support ground troops.
I asked him to describe the U.S. mission that will likely revert back to the embassy it was more than a half century ago.
His deficiencies and self-doubts, amid his epochal mission of liberation, are precisely what make him interesting.
The sad end of the mission to King M'Bongo has been narrated in the body of this work.
Martini was on his mission to Vienna; but another valet was put into the chariot to support the Duke.