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Something heaven-sent comes at exactly the right time, as if a kind power sent it to help you. A heaven-sent chance, a heaven-sent taxi in the rain, a heaven-sent quiet hour when you were at the end of your strength. It is more than lucky: it feels well timed in a way that makes people grateful, even a bit . You will hear it in warm talk and in stories; it is a little old-fashioned for a business email. Though actually, it does not always talk about God. Plenty of people who never think about heaven still say heaven-sent when help arrives just when they needed it.
天賜的、來得正好的
組成heaven + sent. Sent is the past form of send. The picture is of something sent down from heaven.
同家族的字
- God-sentthe same pattern: help that arrives as if sent from above
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,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。
heaven-sentadj
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Fortunate, appropriate, opportune or providential, as (or as if) ordained by God; godsent.
- 1977-1980, Lou Sullivan, personal diary, quoted in 2019, Ellis Martin, Zach Ozma (editors), We Both Laughed In Pleasure The guy was absolutely the greatest. Heaven-sent. A pretty youngman into both men & women, but not in their traditional roles!
資料來源:英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary(CC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。