| 单词 | i pray |
| 释义 | > as lemmasI pray b. I pray: ‘I beg’, ‘please’; ‘I might ask’. Now archaic. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > request > [phrase] > courteous expressions I pray you (also thee, ye)c1330 I praya1350 pray you (also thee, ye)c1439 by your leave1914 a1350 in K. Böddeker Altengl. Dichtungen (1878) 200 (MED) Myldeliche myne, y preie, al þat þou se. a1375 (c1350) William of Palerne (1867) 255 (MED) Bring him hider, faire barn, y preye. c1425 J. Lydgate Troyyes Bk. (Augustus A.iv) i. 1030 (MED) Taketh hede, I praye, both hyȝ and lowe. a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 1 (1623) v. vii. 36 Why what (I pray) is Margaret more then that? View more context for this quotation 1629 W. Prynne Church of Englands Old Antithesis 86 I pray what Scripture proues it? 1704 J. Norris Ess. Ideal World II. xii. 457 Where, I pray, is it that we see it? 1798 W. Wordsworth Goody Blake & Harry Gill in W. Wordsworth & S. T. Coleridge Lyrical Ballads 93 Now think, ye farmers all, I pray, Of Goody Blake and Harry Gill. 1852 H. B. Stowe Uncle Tom's Cabin II. xl. 275 O, Lord! give me these two more souls, I pray! 1897 B. Stoker Dracula iv. 44 I may not have the pleasure of talk tonight, since there are many labours to me; but you will sleep, I pray. 1938 N. Coward in B. Day N. Coward: Compl. Lyrics (1998) 193/3 Whisper low, I pray She yet is sleeping. 1993 B. Aldiss Tupolev too Far (BNC) 87 Let me free, I pray. Let me live upon this blessed mountain. < as lemmas |
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