【pray音标】 英[preɪ] 美[preɪ]
【单词释义】 pray是什么意思：
vt.祈祷，祷告；祈望；请求，恳求；央求
vi.祈祷；请；恳求
[单词分级] 高考英语词汇
[第三人称单数] prays
[单词现在分词] praying
[单词过去式] prayed
[单词过去分词] prayed
【pray同音词】
prey n.被捕食的动物；受害者；受骗者 vi.捕食；欺凌，坑害；折磨
【关联词/派生词】
prayer n.祈祷；祈祷文
【pray形近词/近似词】
bray n.驴叫声；喇叭声 v.（驴子）嘶叫；发嘟嘟声；以刺耳的高声讲话
foray n.尝试；突袭；侵略 v. 袭击；劫掠
fray v.（使布、绳等）磨损，磨破；使紧张；(使)烦躁 n.争吵；打斗；（织物等的）磨损处
spray v. 喷；喷洒 n.水花；喷雾；喷剂
array n.队列，阵列；数组；大堆
gray n.[U,C]灰色(Am.) adj.灰色的；阴暗的
tray n.盘子；托盘；碟
【单词例句】
◇ "Darling Marguerite daisy,"he said to her, "you are the wisest woman of all the flowers. Pray tell me which of the flowers I shall choose for my wife. Which will be my bride? When I know, I will fly directly to her, and propose."
“亲爱的玛加丽特雏菊！”他说，“你是一切花中最聪明的女人。你会作出预言！我请求你告诉我，我应该娶这一位呢，还是娶那一位？我到底会得到哪一位呢？如果我知道的话，就可以直接向她飞去，向她求婚。”
---- The Butterfly
◇ I will get up every night and pray for you, in the winter that you may warm yourselves near a fire, and in the summer that you may not suffer from the heat.
我每天晚上都会起来为你们祈祷，祈祷你们在冬天能有炉火暖暖身子，祈祷你们在夏天不要中暑。
---- The Twelve Brothers
◇ And all the people in the church looked at Karen's red shoes, and all the pictures, and as Karen knelt before the altar, and raised the cup to her lips, she only thought of the red shoes, and they seemed to swim in it; and she forgot to sing her psalm, and she forgot to pray, "Our Father in Heaven!"
教堂里所有的人都望着珈伦的这双红鞋，所有的画像也都在望着它们。当珈伦跪在圣餐台面前、嘴里衔着金圣餐杯的时候，她只想着她的红鞋——它们似乎是浮在她面前的圣餐杯里。她忘记了唱圣诗；她忘记了念祷告。
---- The Red Shoes
◇ And morning came. We gathered and prayed. We kissed our mother,hugged our father and then followed her gurney until we were told that only one of us could go any farther.
第二天早晨，我们聚在一起祷告，与母亲吻别，与父亲拥抱，伴随着母亲的推床直至手术室外。
---- To Love Enough
◇ Tears of joy flooded her eyes as she prayed silently: "Thank You, God. Your love has spread through human hearts and hands."
喜悦的泪水溢出了她的眼睛，她默默地祈祷着：“谢谢你，上帝，你的爱已通过人类的心灵和双手传播了。”
---- The warmth of a cup of milk
◇ The old mother tied the queen's child onto her back, and the poor woman went away with weeping eyes. She came to a great, wild forest where she got onto her knees and prayed to God.
可怜的妇人把孩子背到背上，含泪离开了王宫。她来到一座大森林里，跪下来向上帝祈祷。
---- The Girl without Hands (II)
◇ Then she kneeled down and, crying out to God the Lord, she prayed. Suddenly an angel appeared. He closed a head gate, so that the moat dried up, and she could walk through.
她跪到地上向上帝祈祷。忽然，有个天使向她走来，在水中筑起一道堤坝。这样一来，壕中的水干了，姑娘就可以走到果园去了。