When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers.
— Oscar Wilde  ·  Prayer

📚 名句词汇解析

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punish ['pʌnɪʃ] 词频2 词根: pen
v. 处罚;严厉对付;贪婪地吃喝;
💡 pun处罚+ish动词后缀 → 惩罚
"I'm just watching for a chance to punish him in return!"
我正在伺机报复他呢!
近义：penalise, penalize, reprehend, scourge, smite, thrash 反义：award, please, recompense, reimburse, remunerate, repay
wish [wɪʃ] 词频1
v. 希望;想要;祝愿; n. 愿望;希望;希望的事 ;祝福;
💡 wi(we我们)+sh(希):我们希望- 希望
"I do not wish to complicate the task more than is necessary."
我不想使这项任务不必要地复杂化。
近义：want, will, covet, crave, desire, appetence
answer ['ænsɚ] 词频1 词根: sw-
vt.& vi. 答复; 解答; 答辩;适应; n. 回答;答案;反应;足以媲美的人;
"We sought long and hard but found no answer."
我们作了长期的艰苦探索,但没有找到答案.
近义：reply, respond, satisfy, suffice, suit, fill 反义：examine, inquire, interrogate, order, probe, query
prayers
n. 祈祷；祝福；祷告者；恳求者（prayer的复数）
近义：prayer
gods
n. 上帝们；众神, 诸神, 泛指神灵（god的复数）

📜 Oscar Wilde 的更多名言

"One's real life is often the life that one does not lead."
"Humanity takes itself too seriously. It's the world's original sin. If the caveman had known how to laugh, history would have been different."
"The English country gentleman galloping after a fox - the unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable."
"I always like to know everything about my new friends, and nothing about my old ones."
"Why was I born with such contemporaries?"
"The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing. Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands."
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🏷 更多「Prayer」名言

"There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers."
— Saint Theresa of Jesus
"The time to pray is not when we are in a tight spot but just as soon as we get out of it."
— Josh Billings
"Prayer indeed is good, but while calling on the gods a man should himself lend a hand."
— Hippocrates
"You should pray for a sound mind in a sound body."
— Juvenal
"One single grateful thought raised to heaven is the most perfect prayer."
— G. E. Lessing
"If the only prayer you ever say in your whole life is 'thank you,' that would suffice."
— Meister Eckhart
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