Providential
[prɒvɪ'denʃ(ə)l] or [,prɑvɪ'dɛnʃl]
解釋/意思:
(adj.) resulting from divine providence; 'providential care'; 'a providential visitation' .
(adj.) relating to or characteristic of providence; 'assumption that nature operates only according to a providential plan'- M.R.Cohen .
艾弗里校對--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(a.) Effected by, or referable to, divine direction or superintendence; as, the providential contrivance of thing; a providential escape.
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娱乐性解釋/意思：
adj. Unexpectedly and conspicuously beneficial to the person so describing it.
詹妮校對
例句/造句/用法:
- To be accepted by you as your husband and the earthly guardian of your welfare, I should regard as the highest of providential gifts. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- How providential that he had presence of mind to think of the water-jug! 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- But since providential indications demand a renunciation from me, I renounce. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- It struck her as providential that she should be the instrument of his initiation. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 快樂之家.
- I'm not so surprised at seeing you, old fellow, because I picked up a letter--what you may call a providential thing. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- What a providential thing that this young man should press his right thumb against the wall in taking his hat from the peg! 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歸來記.
- These, my dear Dorothea, are providential arrangements. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
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