| 单词 | praise be to |
| 释义 | > as lemmaspraise be to (or unto) b. praise be to (or unto): may (God, Allah, etc.) be praised. praise be!: ‘May God be praised!’, ‘Thank goodness!’, etc. ΚΠ c1515 Ld. Berners tr. Bk. Duke Huon of Burdeux (1882–7) cxxii. 436 Prayse be to our lorde god my creature. 1549 Forme & Maner consecratyng Archebishoppes sig. F.iiijv Laude and praise be to the father,..and to the holy spirite. 1613 T. Heywood Siluer Age ii. sig. C4 Then praise be to the highest Iupiter. 1664 Hist. Sir John Oldcastle 52 Praise be to him, whose plenty sends both this And all things else our mortal bodies need. 1781 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall II. xxi. 302 The well-known sound of ‘Praise be to God’, which they used as their cry of war, diffused consternation over the unarmed provinces of Africa. 1824 J. Morier Adventures Hajji Baba I. Introd. Epist. p. lii Mashallah! Praise be to God! 1892 Scribner's Mag. Nov. 632/2 Well, praise be, she hasn't a baby, anyhow! 1909 L. M. Montgomery Anne of Avonlea xxx. 359 ‘Praise be to goodness you've come,’ she said devoutly, ‘for there's heaps of things to do.’ 1974 J. Stubbs Painted Face 15 [He was] afraid of what he might see. But it was, praise be, a man whom he revered. 2005 Malaysia Gen. News (Nexis) 4 Aug. Our economy is OK and these companies, Alhamdulillah (Praise be to Allah), are doing OK. < as lemmas |
| 随便看 |
|
英语词典包含1132095条英英释义在线翻译词条，基本涵盖了全部常用单词的英英翻译及用法，是英语学习的有利工具。