But please don't worry that I'm getting ready to preach to you about, compassion or other directedness or the so-called "virtues" .
但请不要担忧，以为我正准备向你就同情，指导他人或所谓的“美德”布道。At the next Friday sermon, the women who were sitting in the side room of the mosque began to share their distress at the state of affairs.
到下个星期五的布道，那些在清真寺侧房里的女人开始讨论她们对时势的担忧。They were all there already, big, comfortable, ordained men; they smiled and nodded as he mounted the pulpit steps.
所有那些个子高大、轻松自在、任了圣职的人已经等候在那里；他登上布道坛的阶梯，他们微笑着，点着头。He gathered about him a small circle of believers and presently began to preach in the town against the prevalent idolatry .
他身边聚集了一小批信徒，很快开始在城里布道，反对当时盛行的盲目崇拜。As a young boy, Edwards is said to have preached sermons to his playmates from a makeshift pulpit he built behind his home.
据说爱德华兹在童年时就在他家屋后建起简易的布道坛，对他的玩伴们布道。I make it a point to save the climax of my talk until the very end.
我总是在讲话最后才将布道推向高潮。At the end of the sermon, the preacher decided to make an example of him.
在结束时，牧师布道决定他的榜样。The Father told Jesus He was proud of Him at His baptism . . . even before Jesus preached His first sermon or performed His first miracle.
圣父告诉耶稣在他洗礼时他以他为傲……甚至在耶稣第一次布道或创造第一个奇迹之前。It was always going to be easier for a US president to climb into the pulpit when Washington felt secure in its hegemony.
当美国政府感到自己的霸权地位很牢靠时，美国总统总是更容易站到布道坛上。