providential
providential 英 [ˌprɒvɪˈdenʃl] 美 [ˌprɑvɪˈdenʃl]
adj. 幸运的
- If your best friend pulls up beside you in her convertible just as your bike gets a flat tire, you could call it providential, or magically lucky.
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- adj. 幸运的
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1. By then, however, Chiang had come to think that the loss of the mainland might have been “providential”.
然而，当时蒋先生逐渐把丢失大陆看作一种“幸运”。
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2. I believe in the natural course of life-if he is truly the providential destiny for me, he is waiting for me somewhere ahead.
我相信生命的自然旅程，如果他真的是我前世注定的缘分，就一定会在前方等着我。
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3. The moon was compared to Satan's shield, and Milton was preparing us then for this radically ambiguous status of this providential moon.
月亮在这里被比作撒旦的盾，弥尔顿准备着让我们了解到这个充满神意的月亮,所处的基本的暧昧不清的地位。
- providential (adj.) 1610s, "pertaining to foresifght" (implied in providentially); 1640s as "pertaining to divine providence," from Latin providentia (see providence) + -al (1). Meaning "by divine interposition" is recorded from 1719.
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