pray
英式音标：pray怎么读
美式音标：pray怎么读
词汇归类： CET4,TEM4,考研,CET6,中低频词,核心词汇
近义词： plead,petition,beg,implore,appeal,entreat,beseech
pray词义
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vt. 祈祷；恳求；央求vi. 祈祷；请；恳求n. (Pray)人名；(匈)普劳伊；(英)普雷
词态变化
第三人称单数: prays;过去式: prayed;过去分词: prayed;现在分词: praying;
中文词源
pray 祈祷，祈求，恳求
来自古法语preier,祈祷，祈求，来自拉丁语precari,乞求，要求，恳求，来自PIE*prek,要求，恳求，词源同precarious,deprecate,postulate.
pray双语例句
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- 1. We have a beautiful city and we pray it stays that way.
- 我们的城市很美丽，但愿它能保持下去。
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- 2. And what, pray, do you buy and sell, Major?
- 梅杰，请问，你都买卖些什么？
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- 3. One can only pray that the team's manager learns something from it.
- 大家也只能希冀球队教练从中汲取教训。
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- 4. She went to pray for the soul of her late husband.
- 她去为亡夫的灵魂祈祷。
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- 5. His statement ended with the words: "Pray for me."
- 他的声明以“为我祈祷”结束。
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pray英文词源
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- pray
- pray: [13] Latin precārī meant ‘ask for, entreat, pray’ (it has given English deprecate [17] and imprecation [16]). In Vulgar Latin it became *precāre, which passed into English via Old French preier. The noun prayer [13] goes back ultimately to the Latin adjective precārius ‘obtained by asking or praying’ (source also of English precarious), which was derived from precārī.
=> deprecate, imprecation, precarious - pray (v.)
- early 13c., "ask earnestly, beg," also (c. 1300) "pray to a god or saint," from Old French preier "to pray" (c.900, Modern French prier), from Vulgar Latin *precare (also source of Italian pregare), from Latin precari "ask earnestly, beg, entreat," from *prex (plural preces, genitive precis) "prayer, request, entreaty," from PIE root *prek- "to ask, request, entreat" (cognates: Sanskrit prasna-, Avestan frashna- "question;" Old Church Slavonic prositi, Lithuanian prasyti "to ask, beg;" Old High German frahen, German fragen, Old English fricgan "to ask" a question).
Parenthetical expression I pray you, "please, if you will," attested from 1510s, contracted to pray 16c. Related: Prayed; praying. Praying mantis attested from 1809. The "Gardener's Monthly" of July 1861 lists other names for it as camel cricket, soothsayer, and rear horse.
pray实用场景例句
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- They knelt down and prayed.
- 他们跪下来祷告。
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- I'll pray for you.
- 我将为你祈祷。
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- to pray for peace
- 祈求和平
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- She prayed to God for an end to her sufferings.
- 她祈求上帝结束她的苦难。
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- We prayed (that) she would recover from her illness.
- 我们为她的康复祈祷。
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- He prayed to be forgiven.
- 他祈求宽恕。
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- We're praying for good weather on Saturday.
- 我们十分企盼星期六是个晴天。
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- I prayed that nobody would notice my mistake.
- 我但愿没人注意到我的错误。
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- What, pray, is the meaning of this?
- 请问，这是什么意思？
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- Pray continue.
- 请继续。
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- He spent his time in prison praying and studying...
- 他把狱中的时间都用于祈祷和学习。
柯林斯高阶英语词典
- Now all we have to do is help ourselves and to pray to God.
- 我们现在所要做的就是自助并向上帝祈祷。
柯林斯高阶英语词典
- I'm just praying that somebody in Congress will do something before it's too late...
- 我只是在祈求国会中会有人在还来得及的时候做点什么。
柯林斯高阶英语词典
- One can only pray that the team's manager learns something from it...
- 大家也只能希冀球队教练从中汲取教训。
柯林斯高阶英语词典
- And what, pray, do you buy and sell, Major?
- 梅杰，请问，你都买卖些什么？
柯林斯高阶英语词典
- I beg your pardon, pray continue.
- 抱歉，请继续。
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- We pray to God to deliver us from evil.
- 我们祈求上帝把我们从罪恶中拯救出来.
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- We pray you to set the child free.
- 我们恳求你放了这个孩子.
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- He got down and began to pray.
- 他跪下并且开始祈祷.
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- In times of difficulty, she pray for an oracle to guide her.
- 在困难的时候, 她祈祷神谕来指引她.
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- They visited the Shrine of Our Lady to pray for redemption.
- 他们参观了圣母马利亚的神龛,为赎罪而祈祷.
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- Pray ( tell me ), what is your name?
- 请问大名?
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- We do pray you to show mercy.
- 我们恳求你发发慈悲.
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- I pray you for mercy.
- 我求你发发慈悲吧.
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- The congregation knelt to pray.
- 会众跪下来祈祷.
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- We pray God's forgiveness.
- 我们祈求上帝的宽恕.
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- I will pray to God for your safety.
- 我要向上帝祈祷保佑你们平安.
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- Christians hope and pray for salvation.
- 基督教徒希望并祈祷灵魂得救.
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