pray的翻译

1. address a deity, a prophet, a saint or an object of worship; say a prayer;

   "pray to the Lord"
   

2. call upon in supplication; entreat;

   "I beg you to stop!"
   

1.祈祷；祷告
When peoplepray, they speak to God in order to give thanks or to ask for his help.

e.g. He spent his time in prison praying and studying...
他把狱中的时间都用于祈祷和学习。
e.g. Now all we have to do is help ourselves and topray to God.
我们现在所要做的就是自助并向上帝祈祷。

2.祈望；祈求
When someone is hoping very much that something will happen, you can say that theyare praying that it will happen.

e.g. 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。
e.g. One can onlypray 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。

3.（用于不太友善或气愤但镇定地提问时）请问
Pray is used when asking a question in a rather unfriendly way or in an angry but calm way.

e.g. And what,pray, do you buy and sell, Major?
梅杰，请问，你都买卖些什么？

4.（用于礼貌地提出要求）请
Pray was used to add politeness to a command.

pray

e.g. I beg your pardon,pray continue.
抱歉，请继续。

• pray devoutly虔诚地祈祷
• pray dumbly〔silently〕默默祈祷
• pray earnestly诚挚地祈祷
• pray fervently热情地祈祷
• pray secretly暗中祈祷
• pray solemnly庄严地祈祷
• pray down〔out〕求神降伏
• pray down enemy求神降伏敌人

• pray against祈祷不要发生…
• pray at one's knee跪在某人的膝下恳求
• pray before a shrine在神龛前祈祷
• pray for the success of为…的成功而祈祷
• pray to sb for sth为某事祈求某人

• I pray you, which is the way to master Jew's?

  出自：Merchant of Venice,Shakespeare

• He..prayed them to keep still that he might count them.

  出自：E. Bowen

1. pray的基本意思是“乞求”,指向权威人物或权力机构提出请求,尤指向上帝祈祷或祈求。当用来表示强烈的要求和请求时,多用在正式文体或文学作品中。
2. pray可用作及物动词,也可用作不及物动词。用作及物动词时可接名词、代词、动词不定式(可为被动式)或that从句作宾语,也可接双宾语,其间接宾语可转化为介词to的宾语。
3. pray还可接以“to be+ adj. ”或动词不定式充当补足语的复合宾语。
4. pray用作不及物动词时,后接介词to和for表示“向神祈祷某事”或“请求某人做某事”; 如只接介词for则表示“因某事而求(神)”。