foreign mission

基本解释

Entertain a foreign mission.
招待一个外国使团。
Mission: to develop brothers and sisters to love the un-reached, and to be Christians who are zealous in foreign mission, so as to enable Coronation to be a church with strong mission commitment.
使命：建立弟兄姐妹成为胸怀普世、热心参与宣教的基督徒，从而使加冕成为委身宣教的教会。
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This autumn, he hopes to start at Abu Toubairah, near Nasiriyah, calling it "the first foreign excavation mission in southern Iraq since 2003."
今年秋天，他打算从纳西里耶附近的Abu Toubairah开始他的探险，称其为“2003年以来在南伊拉克进行的第一次国外发掘行动”。

In blunt terms,the Foreign Affairs Select Committee report says Britain's military mission in Afghanistan has failed to deliver what it promised, because troops are being asked to do too many different tasks.
Two senior U.S.diplomats went to Burma last week to open the dialogue and at a Manila news conference with Philippine Foreign Secretary Alberto Romulo, Clinton called the mission by Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian Affairs Kurt Campbell and his deputy Scott Marciel "very successful."

Mr Wang's flight to a foreign mission was extraordinary for somebody of his celebrity (as a fighter of organised crime) and rank (equivalent to that of a deputy provincial governor).
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And, of course, he's, you know, been traveling around the world with a very - foreign policy mission.
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a body of persons sent to a non-Christian country in order to propagate Christianity