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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.

词态变化

第三人称单数 prays;
过去式 prayed;
过去分词 prayed;
现在分词 praying;

权威造句

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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近反义词

implore 恳求

plead 辩护

beg 恳求

invoke 援引

request 请求

meditate 沉思

contemplate 注视

call upon 号召

call up 给 ... 打电话...

hope 希望

ask 询问

wish 希望

appeal 恳求；呼吁

yearn 渴望

cross your fingers 两指交叉以求好运...

hope against hope 仍抱一线希望...

long 长的

crave 渴望

entreat 恳求

beseech 恳求

petition 请愿书

importune 强求

require 要求

claim 要求

demand 要求

相似短语

pray for 为…而祈祷,祈求

pray out 求神降伏

pray against 祈祷不要发生某事

pray for blessings phr. 祈福

pray in aid of 请求...帮助辩护(常指被告方面要求出面帮助辩护)

pray down 求神降伏

pray without beads 打错了算盘

offer a pray 做祷告,祈祷

pray sb for sth 为某事而乞求某人,请求某人做某事

hope and pray 热切企盼,衷心祈求

单词分析

这些动词均有“要求，请求”之意。
ask最普通用词，指向对方提出要求或请求，长、晚辈，上下级之间都可使用。
beg指恳切地或再三地请求或要求，常含低三下四意味，也多用于应酬场合。
demand一般指理直气壮地提出强烈要求，或坚持不让对方拒绝的要求。
require强调根据事业、需要或纪律、法律等而提出的要求。
request正式用词，指非常正式，有礼貌的请求或恳求，多含担心因种种原因对方不能答应的意味。
implore书面用词，着重指迫切、焦急或痛苦地恳求或哀求，常含较强的感情色彩。
claim指有权或宣称有权得到而公开提出的要求。
pray语气庄重，指热情、诚恳和敬祈的要求，现不很常用。
entreat泛指一般“恳求或哀求”，含企图说服对方或用热烈的请求软化反对意见的意味。

记忆方法

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。

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