prelates

英 [ˈprɛlɪts]

美 [ˈprɛlɪts]

n.  (基督教会的)教长，高级神长
prelate的复数

柯林斯词典

• 高级神职人员；高级教士
  Aprelateis a member of the clergy holding a high rank, for example a bishop or an archbishop.

双语例句

• Too many angels have danced on too many pins as prelates struggle to embrace mutually incompatible beliefs.
  正如太多的天使飞舞在针尖上一样，高级教士们努力的接受互不相容的信念。
• Do you know that the orange lodges agitated for repeal of the union twenty years before O'Connell did or before the prelates of your communion denounced him as a demagogue?
  你晓得吗，橙带党分支鼓动废除联合议会要比奥康内尔这样做，以及你们教派的主教、教长们把他斥为煽动者，还早二十年呢！