clerical meaning in English
adj.
1.教士的，牧师的。
2.职员[办事员，事务员]的，办公室工作的。
n.
1.牧师，教士。
2.〔pl.〕牧师服，教士服。
n.
-ism
教权主义；教士(不应有的)权力。
n.
-ist
教权主义者。
adv.
-ly
Examples
- We don't need to burden the clerical people with that .
我们不需要用这些来加重办事人员的负担。 - There were numerous clerical prisons in which offenders might pine all their lives .
有许许多多的教士监狱，狱中的罪犯往往憔悴终生。 - The feeling that his clerical character had been wholly disregarded sorely vexed him .
他感到自己的教士身份完全被置之不顾，这使他心里异常恼火。 - They then branched off on the relative merits of other clerical bachelors in the vicinity .
他们接着扯开去，谈起了附近一带其他单身牧师相对的长处。 - Although he had lived so many years in italy it was invariably of a decent clerical hue .
尽管他在意大利居住了这么多年，服装却一直是庄重的牧师色泽。