providence
providence 英 [ˈprɒvɪdəns] 美 [ˈprɑvɪdəns]
n. 天意；深谋远虑
名词复数:providences
- Providence is the guardianship and care provided by a deity or god. Religious people thank their god for his providence.
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- n. 天意；深谋远虑
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1. At the time, we don't always understand why things are happening, but when we look back, we know it was providence.
在当时我们总是不明白有些事情为什麽会发生, 但是过后当你回想起来, 我们会知道那是天意.
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2. So, this is my question to you: how complete and perfect is the image of providence that hovers moonlike over the pages of Paradise Lost?
因此，我的问题是：，这里如月亮一般,在的字里行间反复出现的天意的形象,到底是有多么的完整和美好？
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3. Better to fast and pray upon it; and still better, it may be, to leave the mystery as we find it, unless providence reveal it of its own accord.
最好还是靠斋戒和祈祷来解决吧；而最好的办法可能莫过于，留着这宗秘密不去管它，听凭天意自然地揭示好了。
- providence (n.) late 14c., "foresight, prudent anticipation," from Old French providence "divine providence, foresight" (12c.) and directly from Latin providentia "foresight, precaution, foreknowledge," from providentem (nominative providens), present participle of providere "look ahead, prepare, supply, act with foresight," from pro "ahead" (see pro-) + videre "to see" (from PIE root *weid- "to see").
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