pulpit

説教壇

教会で、人々に話をするために立つ一段高い場所。

やさしい英語で： A raised place in a church where someone stands to speak to the people.

• The minister stood in the pulpit.
• A wooden pulpit overlooks the church seats.
• She delivered her first sermon from this pulpit.

よく使う表現： church pulpit, wooden pulpit, from the pulpit

牧師職

教会を率い、信徒に宗教の教えを説く仕事。

やさしい英語で： A job leading a church and giving religious talks to its members.

• The church has a vacant pulpit.
• She accepted the pulpit at a small rural church.
• He filled that pulpit for twenty years.

類義語： pastorate

よく使う表現： fill the pulpit, vacant pulpit