mission

任務、使命

人から任された、または自分で引き受けた重要な仕事。

やさしい英語で： An important job that someone gives you or that you choose to do.

• Your mission is to find the key.
• The soldiers completed their mission safely.
• She made it her mission to improve school meals.

使い方： mission to do something (Our mission is to help families find homes.)

類義語： assignment, task

よく使う表現： complete a mission, secret mission, mission to help

任務、伝道旅行

特定の目的を果たす旅。政府や宗教団体のために行うことが多い。

やさしい英語で： A journey made to achieve a particular aim, often for a government or religious group.

• They left on a rescue mission.
• The minister returned from a peace mission abroad.
• She joined a religious mission to a distant village.

使い方： on a mission to do something (The team went on a mission to rescue the climbers.)

類義語： expedition

よく使う表現： rescue mission, peace mission, mission abroad

伝道所

人々が自分の宗教を広めるために活動する建物や集落。

やさしい英語で： A building or settlement where people work to spread their religion.

• The old mission has a small chapel.
• A village grew around the mission.
• We visited three historic missions during our trip.

よく使う表現： Spanish mission, old mission, mission church