pray

英 [preɪ]      美 [preɪ]
  • vt. 祈祷;恳求;央求
  • vi. 祈祷;请;恳求
  • n. (Pray)人名;(匈)普劳伊;(英)普雷
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1. 扑在光线下才是祈祷。朝拜、拜倒、匍匐在光线在下。
2. p- (趴在地上) + ray (沐浴在上帝的阳光之下) => 祈祷。
pray 祈祷,祈求,恳求

来自古法语preier,祈祷,祈求,来自拉丁语precari,乞求,要求,恳求,来自PIE*prek,要求,恳求,词源同precarious,deprecate,postulate.

pray
pray: [13] Latin precārī meant ‘ask for, entreat, pray’ (it has given English deprecate [17] and imprecation [16]). In Vulgar Latin it became *precāre, which passed into English via Old French preier. The noun prayer [13] goes back ultimately to the Latin adjective precārius ‘obtained by asking or praying’ (source also of English precarious), which was derived from precārī.
=> deprecate, imprecation, precarious
pray (v.)
early 13c., "ask earnestly, beg," also (c. 1300) "pray to a god or saint," from Old French preier "to pray" (c.900, Modern French prier), from Vulgar Latin *precare (also source of Italian pregare), from Latin precari "ask earnestly, beg, entreat," from *prex (plural preces, genitive precis) "prayer, request, entreaty," from PIE root *prek- "to ask, request, entreat" (cognates: Sanskrit prasna-, Avestan frashna- "question;" Old Church Slavonic prositi, Lithuanian prasyti "to ask, beg;" Old High German frahen, German fragen, Old English fricgan "to ask" a question).

Parenthetical expression I pray you, "please, if you will," attested from 1510s, contracted to pray 16c. Related: Prayed; praying. Praying mantis attested from 1809. The "Gardener's Monthly" of July 1861 lists other names for it as camel cricket, soothsayer, and rear horse.
1. We have a beautiful city and we pray it stays that way.
我们的城市很美丽,但愿它能保持下去。
2. And what, pray, do you buy and sell, Major?
梅杰,请问,你都买卖些什么?
3. One can only pray 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。
4. She went to pray for the soul of her late husband.
她去为亡夫的灵魂祈祷。
5. His statement ended with the words: "Pray for me."
他的声明以“为我祈祷”结束。

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