Pray
[preɪ] or [pre]
解釋/意思:
(verb.) address a deity, a prophet, a saint or an object of worship; say a prayer; 'pray to the Lord'.
克莱夫整理--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n. & v.) See Pry.
(v. i.) To make request with earnestness or zeal, as for something desired; to make entreaty or supplication; to offer prayer to a deity or divine being as a religious act; specifically, to address the Supreme Being with adoration, confession, supplication, and thanksgiving.
(v. t.) To address earnest request to; to supplicate; to entreat; to implore; to beseech.
(v. t.) To ask earnestly for; to seek to obtain by supplication; to entreat for.
(v. t.) To effect or accomplish by praying; as, to pray a soul out of purgatory.
桃瑞丝整理
同義詞及近義詞:
v. a. Ask (earnestly), request, entreat, beseech, supplicate, implore, beg, petition, invoke, conjure, ADJURE, call upon.
v. n. Supplicate, entreat, petition, beg, importune, prefer a petition or request.
珍妮特錄入
同義詞及反義詞:
SYN:Beg, beseech, entreat, implore, solicit, supplicate, adjure, invoke, crave,[See BESEECH]
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解釋/意思:
v.i. to ask earnestly: to entreat: to speak and make known one's desires to God.—v.t. to ask earnestly and reverently as in worship: to supplicate: to get by praying:—pr.p. prāy′ing; pa.t. and pa.p. prāyed.—ns. Pray′er the act of praying: entreaty: the words used: solemn giving of thanks and praise to God and a making known of our requests to Him: a form of prayer used in worship: a petition to a public body; Pray′er-book a book containing prayers or forms of devotion.—adj. Pray′erful full of or given to prayer: praying much or often: devotional.—adv. Pray′erfully.—n. Pray′erfulness.—adj. Pray′erless without or not using prayer.—adv. Pray′erlessly.—ns. Pray′erlessness; Pray′er-meet′ing a shorter and simpler form of public religious service in which laymen often take part; Pray′er-mong′er one who prays mechanically; Pray′er-rug a small carpet on which a Moslem kneels at prayer; Pray′ing the act of making a prayer: a prayer made.—adj. given to prayer.—ns. Pray′ing-machine′ -mill -wheel a revolving apparatus used for prayer in Tibet and elsewhere.
編輯:兰德尔
娱乐性解釋/意思:
v. To ask that the laws of the universe be annulled in behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy.
錄入:斯威尼
例句/造句/用法:
- Pray Heaven that I am going away from, have compassion on my uncle! 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- He thought of Miss Ophelia's letter to his Kentucky friends, and would pray earnestly that God would send him deliverance. 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
- Hush, hush, ma'am; pray keep yourself quiet,' replied the bodyguard. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- But pray, Colonel, how came you to conjure out that I should be in town today? 簡·奧斯丁. 理智與情感.
- Meantime, watch and pray that you enter not into temptation: the spirit, I trust, is willing, but the flesh, I see, is weak. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- If God would give me back my children, then I could pray. 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
- Pray ask him for them, and keep them for me, together with the rest. 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.
- Oh, all he longed, all he prayed for, was that I might live with him! 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- As he stood in the doorway, the poor old careworn wayworn woman burst into tears, and clasped her hands, as if in a very agony she prayed to him. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- It would have been very like a Christian, and a marvellously good Christian too, if Oliver had prayed for the people who fed and took care of _him_. 查理斯·狄更斯. 霧都孤兒.
- He was to be told (said Monseigneur) that supper awaited him then and there, and that he was prayed to come to it. 查理斯·狄更斯. 雙城記.
- O dearest Charles, let me thank God for this on my knees as I have prayed to Him. 查理斯·狄更斯. 雙城記.
- I prayed them to save even from himself this scion of the noblest family in England. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- She knelt down and prayed by his bedside, as he did too, having still hold of her hand. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- The priest was standing, and those who were left were kneeling in a half circle around him and they were all praying. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 喪鐘為誰而鳴.
- I have none o' yer bawling, praying, singing niggers on my place; so remember. 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
- We entered, and the pilgrims broke specimens from the foundation walls, though they had to touch, and even step, upon the praying carpets to do it. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- She was evidently in a condition of great suffering, and Tom often heard her praying, as she wavered and trembled, and seemed about to fall down. 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
- Sick people can't bear so much praying and preaching. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- So, the sunrise came, and the shadows of the leaves of the plane-tree moved upon his face, as softly as her lips had moved in praying for him. 查理斯·狄更斯. 雙城記.
- That is past praying for, said Augustine; educated they will be, and we have only to say how. 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
- He loves the idol he serves, and prays day and night that his frenzy may be fed, and that the Ox-eyed may smile on her votary. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- I couldn't undo what was done; and when he begs and prays, “Old pardner, on my knees, don't split upon me! 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- I can say no more, but blessings, blessings on all in the dear house I leave, prays Your affectionate and GRATEFUL Rebecca Crawley. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- A Jew stands without the gate, noble and reverend father, said the Squire, who prays to speak with brother Brian de Bois-Guilbert. 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- She prays there as the light goes out, prays with an humble heart, and walks home shrinking and silent. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
校對:卢埃林