miracle

英 ['m?r?k(?)l] 美['m?r?kl]

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復數:?miracles;

miracle 奇跡，圣跡

來自拉丁語miraculum,令人驚奇之物，上帝創造的鬼斧神工之物，來自mirari,驚訝，驚奇，來自PIE*smei,笑，驚嘆，詞源同marvel,mirror,smile.引申詞義奇跡，圣跡。

miracle (n.): mid-12c., "a wondrous work of God," from Old French miracle (11c.) "miracle, story of a miracle, miracle play," from Latin miraculum "object of wonder" (in Church Latin, "marvelous event caused by God"), from mirari "to wonder at, marvel, be astonished," figuratively "to regard, esteem," from mirus "wonderful, astonishing, amazing," earlier *smeiros, from PIE *smei- "to smile, laugh" (cognates: Sanskrit smerah "smiling," Greek meidan "to smile," Old Church Slavonic smejo "to laugh;" see smile (v.)).

From mid-13c. as "extraordinary or remarkable feat," without regard to deity. Replaced Old English wundortacen, wundorweorc. The Greek words rendered as miracle in the English bibles were semeion "sign," teras "wonder," and dynamis "power," in Vulgate translated respectively as signum, prodigium, and virtus. The Latin word is the source of Spanish milagro, Italian miracolo.

1. A miracle is something that seems impossible but happens anyway.: 奇跡就是看似不可能，卻發生了。

2. The 1981 budget was the springboard for an economic miracle.: 1981年的預算促成了一場經濟奇跡的出現。

4. If you consider him a miracle man, you're overrating him.: 如果你認為他能創造奇跡，那你是高估他了。

5. These are the facts that explode their so-called economic miracle.: 這些就是用來粉碎他們所謂的經濟奇跡的事實。