Picture someone speaking to God: hands together, words either said aloud or kept inside. Those words are the prayer. From that one picture English lets the word slide outward - to the act of speaking, to the meeting where a group does it together, and then out of religion altogether, to any wish held so hard that it feels like asking heaven for it.
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原始詞典資料7 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。
prayernoun詞源 1/pɹɛə/
- 1
A practice of communicating with one's God, or with some spiritual entity.
- Through prayer I ask for God's guidance.
- In many cultures, prayer involves singing.
- 2
An act of praying.
- 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.
- In that spirit, we’ll close with the wish we always offer at the end of our annual review, although this time it’s more of a prayer: Happy new year.
- 3
The specific words or methods used for praying.
- Christians recite the Lord's Prayer.
- For Baha'is, there's a difference between obligatory prayers and devotional prayers.
- 4
A meeting held for the express purpose of praying.
- Grandpa never misses a chance to go to prayer.
- 5
A request; a petition.
- This, your honor, is my prayer; that all here be set free.
- 6
The remotest hope or chance.
- That team doesn't have a prayer of winning the championship.
prayernoun詞源 2/ˈpɹeɪə(ɹ)/
- 1
One who prays.
- If you are a dreamer, a wisher, a liar / A hope-er^([sic]), a pray-er^([sic]), a magic bean buyer…
- Out of the 37 respondents, seven are infrequent prayers who prefer to leave the precise details of their prayer life ambiguous.
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。