pray2013年在哪个队(看着眼熟三)
pray2013年在哪个队(看着眼熟三)具体释义如下:到了14世纪,衍生出来了"请求对方做某事"的含义。一、pray这个单词我们应该很熟悉,是老外经常会做,但是我们汉人很少会做的事情---"祈祷"。这个词在13世纪的时候是"热切的请求"的含义,同时也在宗教情况下表示"祈祷",在后来的演变中,"热切的请求"的词义使用越来越少。
看着眼熟(三)(pray-prey)英语学习到了一定阶段的时候,阅读英文文章,会遇到"好多单词都熟悉,但是句子的意思就是无法理解"的问题。
形近单词的混肴,是导致这个问题的主要因素之一。错把单词认成了另外一个,自然会导致整个句子无法理解。解决此类问题,只能依靠逐个理清形近单词的区别,别无它法。
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本篇学习内容是pray - prey。
一、pray
这个单词我们应该很熟悉,是老外经常会做,但是我们汉人很少会做的事情---"祈祷"。
这个词在13世纪的时候是"热切的请求"的含义,同时也在宗教情况下表示"祈祷",在后来的演变中,"热切的请求"的词义使用越来越少。
到了14世纪,衍生出来了"请求对方做某事"的含义。
具体释义如下:
1、
When people pray they speak to God in order to give thanks or to ask for help .
---verb
动词,指人们向神表示感谢或者请求帮助的行为。
例句:
The prisoner paid no attention to what was going on around him. He seemed to be
dreaming or praying.
---Les Misérables
这个囚犯一点都没注意到身边发生了什么。他看起来似乎在睡觉或者祈祷。
---《悲惨世界》
2、
When someone is hopeing very much that something you can that they are praying that it will happen.
---verb
动词、这个释义是对祈祷的引申,用汉语表示是"希望""期盼"。
例句:
The Troop met twice a week in Jonesboro to drill and to pray for the war to begin.
---Gone With The Wind
部队每周在琼斯伯勒(地名)演习两次,并且士兵们都期盼战争早点开始。
---《乱世佳人》
3、
Pray is used when asking a question in a rather unfriendly way or in an angry but calm way.
副词,用来表示不友好生气但是又相对沉着的状态。
---adverb
大概相当于汉语里的,"我的神(婶)呐"
例句:
Oh Mother of God she thought in agony suppose he says: "Pray do explain!"
---Gone With The Wind
我的天呢,他痛苦的想象着,仿佛他已经把"你要怎么解释!"说出口。
---《乱世佳人》
4、
Pray was used to politeness to a .command
---adverb
副词,用来表示客气和礼貌
例句:
`I told you you had a remarkable face Mr. Barsad ' observed Carton coolly `Pray sit down.'
---A Tale of Two Cities
"我说过,你的长相让人很难忘记,巴萨先生。"卡尔顿边看边很酷的说 "请坐。"
---《双城记》
"Pray excuse me " said I. "Under the circumstances no." `They exchanged looks but bent their
heads to me as I bent mine to them and we parted without another word on either side.
---A Tale of Two Cities
"对不住。" 我说,"在这种情况下,不行。" 他们对视了一眼,也和我一样低着头没有看我,就这样,我们便一句话都没有说的分开了。
---《双城记》
肥叔的话:
讲真,这个词儿没仔细研究之前,我一直以为都只有"祈祷"的用法。
仔细研究后,竟然还有"请"的含义。
真是不研究不知道,一研究就吓一跳。
英语知识的拓展实际就是通过这一点点的钻研实现的。
二、prey
在十二世纪中期,这个词的是指"动物在追逐中捕获的战利品",到了十三世纪,衍生出了人类战争战利品的含义,在十四世纪,这个词衍生出了"捕猎的行为"的含义。
让我们看一下具体的释义:
1、
A creature's prey are the creatures that it hunts and eats in order to live.
---uncountable noun
一个不可数名词,意思是一种生物作为食物 的猎物。
例句:
These pseudo-teeth (real teeth having disappeared from birds many millions of years previously) are thought to have helped them catch prey.
---The Economist - 01.11.2020
这些假牙(鸟类真正牙齿上百万年前就退化消失了)被认为能够帮助它们抓住猎物。
---《经济学人》 - 2020.11.01
2、 creature that preys on other creatures lives by catching and eating them.
---verb
掠食的行为
例句:
Hawks in Montana gladly perch on newly erected livestock fencing to prey on small herbivores while fence-dwelling spiders in South Africa outperform their tree-based cousins when it comes to catching insects.
---The Economist - 24.10.2020
蒙大拿州的老鹰高兴地栖息在新建立的牲畜围栏上捕食小型食草动物,而南非的围栏蜘蛛在捕捉昆虫方面的表现要优于它们的树上同类。
---《经济学人》 - 2020.10.24
3、
You can refer to the people who someone tries to harm or trick as their prey.
---uncountable noun
被别人伤害和欺骗的人,也可以被称为prey,受害者。
例句:
Up to that moment in the excess of his triumph in the presence of the prey which had been brought down and which did not stir the ferocious man had prevailed; when the victim struggled and tried to resist the adroit man reappeared and took the upper hand.
---Les Misérables
在那一刻,这个残忍的男人把他的猎物击倒之后,便彻底的胜利了;当失败者开始挣扎和抵抗的时候,这个敏捷的男人,又重新出现在他身边,并占尽先机。
---《悲惨世界》
4、
If someone preys on other people especially people who are unable to protect themselves they take advantage of them or harm them in some way.
---verb
把某人当做猎物,而去狩猎这个人,多数指从这个人身上占便宜,或者欺负对方和伤害对方。
这里用法和第一个释义相同,不再补充例句。
5、
If something preys on your mind you cannot stop thinking and worrying about it.
---verb
特指无法挥去的脑子里的念头的纠缠。
例句:
Chastened world-weary remorseful the strain on her nerves had preyed upon her flesh and bones and she appeared smaller in outline than she had formerly done though Sue had not been a large woman in her days of rudest health.
---Jude The Obscure
饱受摧残,厌世,悔恨---紧张的神经折磨着她,她骨瘦如柴,轮廓显得比以前小了很多,尽管苏在她年轻健康时候身材也并不魁梧。
---《无名的裘德》
6、
If someone is prey to something bad they have a tendency to let themselves be affected by it.
---uncountable noun
成为某些(不好的)东西的猎物,沉溺于某些不好的东西。
例句:
I suppose even a tech-man can fall prey to money.
---Foundation
我想就算是一个极客,也会陷入金钱的漩涡。
---《银河帝国:帝国三部曲》
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