Miracle
['mɪrək(ə)l] or ['mɪrəkl]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) a marvellous event manifesting a supernatural act of a divine agent.
(noun.) any amazing or wonderful occurrence.
校對:菲利斯--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) A wonder or wonderful thing.
(n.) Specifically: An event or effect contrary to the established constitution and course of things, or a deviation from the known laws of nature; a supernatural event, or one transcending the ordinary laws by which the universe is governed.
(n.) A miracle play.
(n.) A story or legend abounding in miracles.
(v. t.) To make wonderful.
整理:肯尼思
同義詞及近義詞：
n. Marvel, wonder, prodigy.
校對:凯特
解釋/意思:
n. anything wonderful: a prodigy: anything beyond human power and away from the common action of the laws of nature: a supernatural event.—ns. Mir′acle-mong′er one who pretends to work miracles; Mir′acle-play a medieval form of drama founded on Old or New Testament history or the legends of the saints.—adj. Mirac′ulous of the nature of a miracle: done by supernatural power: very wonderful: able to perform miracles.—adv. Mirac′ulously.—n. Mirac′ulousness.
編輯:内尔达
娱乐性解釋/意思：
n. An act or event out of the order of nature and unaccountable as beating a normal hand of four kings and an ace with four aces and a king.
埃西手打
娱乐性解釋/意思：
A woman who won't talk.
錄入:赖安
例句/造句/用法:
- It occurred to her, like a miracle, that she might go away into another world. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- No less potent enchantment could avail to work this miracle. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- Sam, I think this rather apocryphal,--this miracle. 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
- No one knew exactly how the miracle was accomplished. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 純真年代.
- But I delivered this written communication (slate and all) with my own hand, and Joe received it as a miracle of erudition. 查理斯·狄更斯. 遠大前程.
- And that others should approve, of what we approve, is no miracle or impossibility? 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- But a kind fate intervened, and by a miracle I escaped with but slight bruises. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星戰神.
- A twelve months' voyage at sea would make of an ordinary man a very miracle of meanness. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- In two short days he has made his way straight into my favourable estimation, and how he has worked the miracle is more than I can tell. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- Its hope is that some man living at one place on the globe in a particular epoch will, through the miracle of genius, be able to generalize his experience for all time and all space. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- The miracle of a bird's flight, that st eady and almost effortless motion, had interested Langley intensely--as had also the sun's radiation--from the years of his childhood. 李貝. 西洋科學史.
- This was the everrecurrent miracle of his life, at the knowledge of which he was lost in an ecstasy of relief and wonder. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- Some miracle might have produced it, yet the stages of the discovery were distinct and probable. 瑪麗·雪萊. 弗蘭肯斯坦.
- In fact,' he said, 'it would be little short of a miracle, if she recovered. 查理斯·狄更斯. 霧都孤兒.
- She was roused, and did--no miracle--but her best. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- It was not I who did it, it was love, love for Dejah Thoris, a power that would work greater miracles than this you have seen. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星公主.
- As for his shoulders and arms they continued as before; Frenchmen cannot work miracles like German princes! 哈裡特·威爾遜. 哈裡特·威爾遜回忆录.
- Christ did few miracles in Nazareth, and staid but a little while. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- That British love of decency will work miracles. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- Why, your friend has worked miracles. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- Truly, love does work miracles. 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
- Look at the miracles that have happened before this. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 喪鐘為誰而鳴.
- She kept his copy-books, his drawings, and compositions, and showed them about in her little circle as if they were miracles of genius. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- He worked miracles in Bethsaida and Chorazin--villages two or three miles from Capernaum. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- Miracles were to be wrought in my favour, the machine of social life pushed with vast effort backward. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- And these are not the days of miracles, I thought to myself, and wondered to hear her talk so. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- The original Aryan gods were not expected to work miracles or control men's lives. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- What gasconading rascals those saints must have been, if they first boasted these exploits or invented these miracles. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- You can't base an operation on the presumption that miracles are going to happen. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 喪鐘為誰而鳴.
- If Lazarus was only half as far gone, that was the greatest of all the miracles. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
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