praise the Lord

短语

释义与例句

interj.
  1. 1.

    A phrase used to thank God by Christians.

  2. 2.

    Expression of thankful happiness; not always literally religious when used by cultural Christians, but not explicitly differentiable, thus ambiguous.

  3. 3.

    Stereotypical exclamation used in mockery of Christianity.

    英国

词源

A present subjunctive clause inherited intact from a time when English was freely productive of them. It is semantically equivalent to praise be to God. The zero morph difference from the imperative form allows parsing as a command synchronically.

来源：wiktionary