| 词汇 | heaven-sent |
| 释义 | heaven-sent adjective uk /ˌhev.ənˈsent/ us /ˌhev.ənˈsent/ If someone or something is heaven-sent, he, she, or it arrives or happens, usually unexpectedly, at the time when most useful.天赐的 Synonym providentialformal Good luck and bad luck align bad/hard/tough luck!idiom be bad luck on someoneidiom be down on your luckidiom be in/out of luckidiom blessing fortune cookie fortune smiles on someoneidiom get the short end of the stickidiom godsend grace mercifully mercy miracle misadventure mischance streak voodoo with any luckidiom your luck's in!idiom Examples of heaven-sentheaven-sent That sort of compilation of news is a heaven-sent opportunity for anonymous scandalmongers. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Some of us are under the impression that some of his leaders think they are heaven-sent. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The site chosen was being used for other purposes, but it was a heaven-sent opportunity. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I do not claim that it is any heaven-sent panacea towards entirely solving this problem. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 One is that it is a heaven-sent means of manipulating the economy for political purposes. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Do we not have a heaven-sent opportunity as a result? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 This money is not really heaven-sent, of course, it is taken away from those self-same citizens without their being aware of it. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English Of course, this is a heaven-sent state of affairs for the potential mugger. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Putting woodland planting through the whole gamut of the local planning organisation is a heaven-sent opportunity for bureaucratic aggrandisement. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It is perfectly obvious that the means test provides a heaven-sent opportunity for the demagogue. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The local authority, of course, jumped at this heaven-sent solution to the problem and accepted the higher tender. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 This heaven-sent opportunity for reorganisation by agreement is not likely to come for a long time again. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 This is a heaven-sent opportunity to use the accumulating masses of plutonium in fast breeder reactors. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 However, we would say that this is a heaven-sent opportunity to inject more money into the educational system. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We want to know why this heaven-sent opportunity to solve the chronic problem of unemployment in this valley has not yet been grasped. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 See all examples of heaven-sent These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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