sermonizing

Promoting effectiveness of moral education in institutions of higher learning should be shifted from moral sermonizing to system building, i.e., regulating people's behavior by rules and stipulations.

提高高校德育的有效性，要变道德说教为制度建设，以规则、规定来规范人的行为；

Making fun is their unique purpose, does not for sermonize not to have purpose even. Comedy is just fun.

搞笑是他们唯一的目的，没有说教甚至没有目的，喜剧就是逗人笑，这反映出时代精神变异的取向。

The film attempts neither to dramatize nor sermonize.

这部电影既不企图使用戏剧化的手法也不企图进行说教.

and they'll soon forget the tedious sermonizing of a few dry old men.

然后，他们会很快地忘记元老院那些讨厌的老家伙的说教。

By his knack of sermonizing and pious discoursing, he contrived to make a great impression on Mr Earnshaw; and the more feeble the master became, the more influence he gained.

约瑟夫极力凭着花言巧语和虔诚的说教，给恩萧先生一个很好的印象。主人越衰弱，他的势力越大。