evangelist

熱心な支持者、伝道者

ある考えや活動を熱心に支持し、他の人にも賛同してもらおうとする人。

やさしい英語で： Someone who strongly supports a belief or cause and tries to persuade others to support it too.

• He is an evangelist for cycling.
• The religious evangelist urged the crowd to embrace his faith.
• Her enthusiasm turned her into an evangelist for public libraries.

使い方： an evangelist for something (She became an evangelist for healthy eating.)

類義語： advocate, champion, enthusiast

よく使う表現： evangelist for something, religious evangelist, enthusiastic evangelist

テクノロジーエバンジェリスト

特定の技術を使ってもらうよう人々に働きかける仕事をする人。

やさしい英語で： Someone employed to persuade people to use a particular technology.

• The company hired a technology evangelist.
• Their developer evangelist demonstrates the software at conferences.
• Two evangelists helped programmers learn about the new platform.

類義語： technology advocate

よく使う表現： developer evangelist, technology evangelist, product evangelist

伝道者、宣教師

ある町や地域に初めてキリスト教の教えを伝える人。

やさしい英語で： Someone who first brings the Christian message to a particular town or region.

• He was the first evangelist to reach the island.
• The town honours the evangelist who brought Christianity there.
• Early evangelists carried the gospel into remote regions.

使い方： evangelist of a place (The monk is remembered as the evangelist of the region.)

類義語： missionary

よく使う表現： early evangelist, first evangelist, evangelist of something

総主教

大きなキリスト教会を率いる、高い地位の聖職者。

やさしい英語で： A senior Christian leader who is the head of a major church.

• The old chronicle calls the church’s patriarch an evangelist.
• The evangelist held authority over the region’s bishops.
• Clergy gathered to hear the evangelist’s ruling.

類義語： patriarch

よく使う表現： church evangelist, the evangelist, evangelist’s authority