| 单词 | providential |
| 释义 | providential adjective formaluk/ˌprɒv.ɪˈden.ʃəl/us/ˌprɑː.vəˈden.ʃəl/happeningexactlywhenneededbut without beingplanned: 凑巧的；及时的；幸运的a providentialopportunity机缘巧合 Synonym heaven-sent Fate and destiny
Examplesofprovidentialprovidential Each problem concerns an apparently apodeictic principle that theprovidentialemployment of divine foreknowledge is supposed to violate. From theCambridge English Corpus Perhaps, on the contrary, people had always exhibited an ability to engage withprovidentialstories and miraculous tales on several different conceptual levels. From theCambridge English Corpus Their objectives ranged widely too, from the mundane to theprovidential. From theCambridge English Corpus Eachprovidentialcycle had produced more converts for the true faith and a greater security for the true religion. From theCambridge English Corpus Monteore punctuates her journal with references to her religious faith and her conviction that despite their difculties, there is aprovidentialplan. From theCambridge English Corpus In both cases, he clung stubbornly to stories ofprovidentialretribution despite vigorous objections to their accuracy. From theCambridge English Corpus These marital and national concerns were played out against a stronglyprovidentialbackdrop. From theCambridge English Corpus They see in it a force for good that works like aprovidentialmechanism for the benefit of human kind. From theCambridge English Corpus The khubz-iste individual is quietist; the khubz-iste state isprovidential. From theCambridge English Corpus At the risk of over-simplifying, we may observe thatprovidentialcontrol may be active or passive. From theCambridge English Corpus The timing of physical death was uncertain and its causeprovidential. From theCambridge English Corpus In place of thisprovidentialsystem, the eighteenth century provided a new world of sociability, politeness, reading, and commercial credit. From theCambridge English Corpus Prosperity offered hints ofprovidentialfavor - how you fared here was a pretty good indicator of how you would fare in the hereafter. From theCambridge English Corpus American antislavery advocates were also impressed by the rapidity of this process, which they took as evidence of theprovidentialprogress of mankind in their time. From theCambridge English Corpus That she did so without surrendering the authority of aprovidentialintention at work in her test strikes me as necessarily conservative in conviction and as brilliantly radical in form. From theCambridge English Corpus These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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