| 词汇 | praying |
| 释义 | praying present participle ofpray pray verb uk /preɪ/ us /preɪ/ A2[ I or T ] to speak to a god either privately or in a religious ceremony in order to express love, admiration, or thanks or in order to ask for something: 祷告，祈祷 She knelt and prayed silently.她跪下默默祈祷。 Let us pray for the victims of this terrible disaster.让我们为这次可怕灾难的受害者祈祷吧。 [ + that ]We've been praying to God that your son will make a complete recovery.我们一直在祈祷上帝让你的儿子完全康复。 formalYou must pray (= ask for) God's forgiveness for what you have done.你必须祈求上帝宽恕你的所作所为。 B2[ I ] to hope for something very much: 强烈地希望;祈望，祈求 We're praying for good weather for tomorrow's game.我们祈祷明天的比赛有个好天气。 We pray for deliverance from our sins.我们为从罪中得救而祈祷。 Let us pray for those who are not so fortunate as ourselves. The people all fell to their knees and began to pray.人们都跪了下来，开始祈祷。 We're having the party in the garden, so I'm praying it'll be sunny.我们要在花园里举行聚会，所以我正祈祷那天会阳光明媚。 He knelt in front of the altar and prayed.他跪在圣坛前祈祷。 Religious ceremonies & prayers alleluia amen anoint anointed anointment communion confirm confirmation consecrate consecration litany liturgical liturgically liturgy Seder thanksgiving the Lord's Prayer unchristened unction unprogrammed You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Hoping and hopefulness Examples of prayingpraying In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use. But the frequent link between visiting a church and praying for the souls of people identified as buried there is suggestive. The food is typically served only after any business, such as praying, is complete, and only then is there much conversation. The custom of praying for one's dead parents (as well as forefathers) was also pervasive in all the three cultures. Praying increases one's chance of getting what one wishes. There are also various analogues shells, pinecones, praying hands - and precedents that arise as metaphors. You should have seen him kneeling and praying when the rooms in the castle were already on fire around him. Here it need not, since we could eliminate inequality by praying for manna. We have had praying leaders who imagine that foreigners, usually with beards, require reform and invasion. They are praying for death and their prayers will be answered. People sometimes respond to others' current prayers in their own simultaneous praying. Memorial days were significant because descendants in a family united for the purpose of praying and honouring the deceased parents. Perhaps by praying in unison, their thoughts can be brought into unison. How does their worship proceed today, beyond its evident (and widely shared) reliance on the oral fervour of praying, preaching and hymn-singing? Tension-sensitive kinetochore phosphorylation and the chromosome distribution checkpoint in praying mantid spermatocytes. The traditional altars that used to be the quintessential location for praying are never used. 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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