Prayer
[preə] or [prɛr]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) the act of communicating with a deity (especially as a petition or in adoration or contrition or thanksgiving); 'the priest sank to his knees in prayer'.
(noun.) a fixed text used in praying.
(noun.) reverent petition to a deity.
(noun.) someone who prays to God.
贝茜手打--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) One who prays; a supplicant.
(v. i.) The act of praying, or of asking a favor; earnest request or entreaty; hence, a petition or memorial addressed to a court or a legislative body.
(v. i.) The act of addressing supplication to a divinity, especially to the true God; the offering of adoration, confession, supplication, and thanksgiving to the Supreme Being; as, public prayer; secret prayer.
(v. i.) The form of words used in praying; a formula of supplication; an expressed petition; especially, a supplication addressed to God; as, a written or extemporaneous prayer; to repeat one's prayers.
艾布拉姆編輯
同義詞及近義詞：
n. Supplication, entreaty, suit, petition, request, SUFFRAGE.
整理:帕斯夸里
同義詞及反義詞：
SYN:Petition, supplication, entreaty, orison, benediction, suit, request,[SeeBENEDICTION]
錄入:曼蒂
娱乐性解釋/意思：
To dream of repeating the Lord's Prayer, foretells that you are threatened with secret foes and will need the alliance and the support of friends to tide you over difficulties. To hear others repeat it, denotes the danger of some friend.
To dream of saying prayers, or seeing others doing so, foretells you will be threatened with failure, which will take strenuous efforts to avert.
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例句/造句/用法:
- His nature was not changed by one hour of solemn prayer: it was only elevated. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- The prayer-bell rang; I obeyed its summons. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- And when my only prayer was to be taken off from the rest and when it was such inexplicable agony and misery to be a part of the dreadful thing? 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- After a spacebreathless and spent in prayer, a penitent approached the confessional. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- I cannot resist your prayer. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- I had some years before composed a little liturgy or form of prayer for my own private use (viz. 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.
- In some sisterhood of the strictest order, shalt thou have time for prayer and fitting penance, and that repentance not to be repented of. 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- The magnificent melody of the Prayer in Rossini's Moses, sung in a sonorous bass voice, rose grandly through the suburban silence of the place. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- God is about to grant the prayer I have made to him, thought I,--ever sanguine in what I wished--I shall die by his own will. 哈裡特·威爾遜. 哈裡特·威爾遜回忆录.
- I used also, sometimes, a little prayer which I took from Thomson's Poems, viz. 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.
- Private prayer is inaudible speech, and speech is representative: who can represent himself just as he is, even in his own reflections? 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- They were private, and were filled with arguments; some of these taking the form of prayer. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- The white vapor of the kiln was passing from us as we went by, and as I had thought a prayer before, I thought a thanksgiving now. 查理斯·狄更斯. 遠大前程.
- Had no one a wish, no one a word, no one a prayer to which I could say--Amen? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- She came into the nursery one evening just after I had listened to Georgette's lisped and broken prayer, and had put her to bed. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- Then I remembered all at once that I had not said my prayers that morning. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- There are names, and Christian symbols, and prayers, or sentences expressive of Christian hopes, carved upon nearly every sarcophagus. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- She thought about him the very first moment on waking; and his was the very last name mentioned in her prayers. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- The meal over, prayers were read by Miss Miller, and the classes filed off, two and two, upstairs. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- I began sometimes to pray: very brief prayers they were, but very sincere. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- Tom, therefore, remained behind, with a few who had learned of him to pray, and offered up prayers for the escape of the fugitives. 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
- Prayers and invocations would be made. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- And then I said my prayers and thought a little more. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- He would have prayers in the house, I believe. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- And if prayers have efficacy, yours will benefit me. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- At first this, and her terrific screams, were all that could be got from Rachael, by any tears, by any prayers, by any representations, by any means. 查理斯·狄更斯. 艱難時事.
- Dreadful doubt and anguish--prayers and fears and griefs unspeakable--followed the regiment. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- Have we a right to repeat or to overhear her prayers? 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- My picture was in her room, and I was in her prayers. 查理斯·狄更斯. 雙城記.
- He used, indeed, sometimes to pray for my conversion, but never had the satisfaction of believing that his prayers were heard. 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.
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