| 释义 |
ˈheaven-sent, a.
Sent from heaven; providentially sent. Cf. heaven send, heaven n. 11.
a1649Drummond of Hawthornden Poems Wks. (1711) 37/2 If you your heaven-sent good could duly prize. 1777Potter æschylus (1779) I. 52 (Jod.) How relate the heav'n-sent tempest That burst upon my head? 1875Jowett Plato (ed. 2) I. 341 He is their heaven-sent friend. |