1·"Heaven," he answered, and drove his spade deep into the soil, according to what parson says.
“天堂。”他回答，把他的铁锹深深插进土里，跟牧师说的一致。
2·The parson, heading the procession, had just turned right toward the churchyard.
走在行列最前头的那位牧师，刚朝右转走向了教堂墓地。
—— 《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》
3·"The child should have come to school a year ago," the parson went on to say.
“这孩子应该在一年前就来上学了。”牧师接着说。
4·But it also means the gradual end of the hallowed "parson's freehold" that can give parish clergy a kind of owner-occupier status.
但这也意味着，能给教区牧师某种拥有居住房产的神圣“牧师免费居住”制的逐渐结束。
5·I'm not of his persuasion now, but he's a good man, and he'll expound as well as any parson I know. 'Twas he began the work in me.'
我现在跟他不是一个教派了，不过他是一个好人，不比我所知道的任何一个牧师差，我最先就是受他的影响。