Bible-thumping
adjective [ before noun ] informal disapproving mainly US uk/ˈbaɪ.bəlˌθʌm.pɪŋ/ us/ˈbaɪ.bəlˌθʌm.pɪŋ/ (also mainly UK Bible-bashing)
笃信基督教的;宣讲福音的
trying in a forceful or enthusiastic way to persuade people to believe in the Christian religion and the Bible, or used to describe a place where people do this
He grew up in the South in a Bible-thumping Pentecostal family. 他在南方一个笃信五旬节派的家庭长大。
She was born in the Bible-thumping Arkansas town of Lonoke. 她出生在阿肯色州那个笃信基督教的洛诺克镇。
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- I'm not a bible-thumping person at all.
- He is not your stereotypical Bible-thumping pro-lifer.
- His Bible-thumping rhetoric found little echo among the district's Catholic voters.
Bible-thumping
noun [ U ] informal disapproving mainly US uk/ˈbaɪ.bəlˌθʌm.pɪŋ/ us/ˈbaɪ.bəlˌθʌm.pɪŋ/ (also mainly UK Bible-bashing)
笃信基督教;宣讲福音
behaviour that involves trying in a forceful or enthusiastic way to persuade people to believe in the Christian religion and the Bible
Moderate Republicans were turned off by his Bible-thumping. 温和派的共和党人对他的讲经布道没有兴趣。
They need someone who is less prone to bible-thumping and preaching. 他们需要一个不爱宣讲福音和传经布道的人。
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- It is a nation marked by prodigious Bible-thumping.
- A secular ideology, not bible-thumping, is required.
- The movie's spiritual underpinnings sometimes veer into Bible-thumping.