喜樂美語

Picture someone with standing raising a hand over you and speaking good words: a priest at the end of a service, a parent at a doorway. Three things sit inside that one picture, and English uses all three. There is the speaking itself — the words said over a person, a house, a meal. There is the yes it carries — someone whose opinion counts has looked at your plan and spoken well of it. And there is the good that lands — the help, the luck, the thing that actually turns up in your life. One way to see the word: the further it travels from the church, the less it is about who is speaking and the more it is about what arrived.

可以想成這個畫面：一個有分量的人把手抬起來，對著你說好話。可能是禮拜結束時的神父，也可能是門口送你出門的長輩。這一個畫面裡其實有三塊，而英文三塊都在用。第一塊是「說」——為人、為房子、為一頓飯說出來的那段話。第二塊是「准」——有分量的人看過你的打算，開口說好，事情就名正言順。第三塊是「到手的好」——真正落到生活裡的幫助和運氣。一種想法是：這個字離教堂越遠，重點就越不在誰開口，而在你手上多了什麼。

From the word’s history

Wiktionary traces blessing to Middle English blessinge and Old English blētsung, formed from the verb bless plus -ing. The oldest thing in the word is therefore the act itself: the speaking of good over someone. The everyday a real blessing sits at the far end of that line — the result rather than the act.

Wiktionary 記錄 blessing 來自中古英語 blessinge，再往前是古英語 blētsung，構成方式是 bless 加 -ing。所以這個字最老的一塊是動作本身：為某人說出好的話。今天最常用的「好事一件」站在這條線的另一端，講的是結果，不是動作。這是概念上的一條線索，不是說每個用法都是歷史上一路長出來的。

Wiktionary entry for 'blessing' supplied in this packet (source_ref kaikki:3f6f69a190036ae4:324420152): 'From Middle English blessinge, blessynge, from Old English blētsung, blēdsung (a blessing), equivalent to bless + -ing.'

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同家族的字

複數 blessings

原始詞典資料11 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

Blessingname

  • 1

    A surname.

  • 2

    A unisex given name of mainly African usage.

blessingnoun/ˈblɛs.ɪŋ/

  • 1

    Some kind of divine or supernatural aid, or reward.

    • Henceforth, wherever thou may’st roam, ⁠My blessing, like a line of light, ⁠Is on the waters day and night, And like a beacon guards thee home.
  • 2

    A pronouncement invoking divine aid.

    • Then everybody once more knelt, and soon the blessing was pronounced. The choir and the clergy trooped out slowly, […], down the nave to the western door. […] At a seemingly immense distance the surpliced group stopped to say the last prayer.
  • 3

    Good fortune.

    • He was given blessings hoping he would pass his final exam.
  • 4

    lifestylepaganismreligionA modern pagan ceremony.

  • 5

    The act of declaring or bestowing favor; approval.

    • We will not proceed without the executive director's blessing.
    • Jocasta had my blessing when she seduced you, you stuck-up piffler.
  • 6

    Something someone is glad of.

    • After two weeks of sun, last night's rainfall was a blessing.
  • 7

    A prayer before a meal; grace.

  • 8

    A group of unicorns.

    • And since we’re laying out our wishes, we’d also like a blessing of unicorns and one million dollars.
    • Then a blessing of unicorns charged into the studio, and I was carried away to be re-educated.

這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：

摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。