• n. 教区牧师，教堂牧师；传教牧师；代理人
• n. (Vicar)人名；(英)维卡

来自拉丁语vicis,改变，交流，继任，副职，词源同vice-president,viceroy。引申词义代牧，教区牧师。

vicar

vicar: [13] A vicar is etymologically a ‘substitute’ for or ‘representative’ of someone else: thus the pope is the vicar of God on Earth, and the vicar of a parish was originally someone who stood in for the parson or rector. The word comes via Old French vicaire from Latin vicārius ‘substitute, deputy’. This was a noun use of the adjective vicārius ‘substituting’ (source of English vicarious [17], which more closely preserves the meaning of its Latin original). And vicārius in turn was derived from vicis ‘change, turn, office’, source also of English vicissitude [16] and the prefix vice-.
=> vicarious, vicissitude

vicar (n.)

early 14c., from Anglo-French vicare, Old French vicaire "deputy, second in command," also in the ecclesiastical sense (12c.), from Latin vicarius "a substitute, deputy, proxy," noun use of adjective vicarius "substituted, delegated," from vicis "change, interchange, succession; a place, position" (see vicarious). The original notion is of "earthly representative of God or Christ;" but also used in sense of "person acting as parish priest in place of a real parson" (early 14c.).

The original Vicar of Bray (in figurative use from 1660s) seems to have been Simon Allen, who held the benefice from c. 1540 to 1588, thus serving from the time of Henry VIII to Elizabeth I, being twice a Catholic and twice a Protestant but always vicar of Bray. The village is near Maidenhead in Berkshire.

1. The housekeeper moved smartly to the Vicar's desk to answer the call.

管家迅速来到牧师的书桌前接电话。

来自柯林斯例句

2. The Vicar looked at him with open-mouthed incredulity.

教区牧师目瞪口呆地看着他，露出不相信的表情。

来自柯林斯例句

3. She always puts on a posh voice to talk to the vicar.

她总是装腔作势,用一种优雅的嗓音跟教区牧师讲话.

来自《简明英汉词典》

4. Our vicar is always raising money for one cause or another.

我们的牧师老是在为这桩或那桩事募款.

来自《用法词典》

5. We were married by our local vicar.

我们是由本地教区牧师主持婚礼的.

来自《简明英汉词典》