pray

B1 CET-4 Oxf 3000 高中 FREQ #1625 ★★☆☆☆

v. 祈祷, 恳求, 请

发音

US /pɹeɪ/

词形变化

pray'd prayed prayedst prayest prayeth praying prays 三单 prays praying 现在分词 prayed 过去式 prayed 过去分词

别名

praye

教材释义与例句

动词

祈祷；恳求；央求

to speak to God in order to ask for help or give thanks

动词

祈祷；请；恳求

They went to the mosque to pray.

他们去清真寺祷告。

释义与例句

v. B1 Oxf 3000
  1. 1.

    To direct words, thoughts, or one's attention to a deity or any higher being, for the sake of adoration, thanks, petition for help, etc.

    祈祷

    祷告

    宗教

    Muslims pray in the direction of Mecca.

  2. 2.

    To humbly beg a person for aid or their time.

    乞求

  3. 3.

    To ask earnestly for; to seek to obtain by supplication; to entreat for.

    废旧
  4. 4.

    To wish or hope strongly for a particular outcome.

    She is praying that the Red Sox will win tonight.

  5. 5.

    To implore, to entreat, to request.

    废旧 法律
adv.
  1. 1.

    Please; used to make a polite request

    古体 正式

    pray silence for…

  2. 2.

    Alternative form of pray tell (“I ask you”).

词汇关系

动词

同义词 2

beg implore

上位词 2

plead commune

下位词 4

insist crave importune supplicate

相关短语

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词源

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *preḱ- Proto-Italic *preks Latin prex Latin precārī Late Latin precāre Old French proiier Anglo-Norman preierbor. Middle English preien English pray Inherited from Middle English preien, borrowed from Anglo-Norman preier, from Old French proiier, from Late Latin precāre, from Latin precārī, from prex (“request, petition, prayer”), from Proto-Italic *preks, from Proto-Indo-European *preḱ- (“to request, ask”). Displaced native Old English gebiddan. Cognate via Indo-European of Old English frignan, fricgan, German fragen, Dutch vragen. Compare deprecate, imprecate, precarious.

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