英汉词典

God 基本解释

• n. 神；（大写首字母时）上帝
• vt. 膜拜，崇拜
• n. (God)人名；(索、阿拉伯)古德

God 词态变化

God 中文词源

来自PIE*gheu, 涌出，倾泻，祭酒，词源同gush, gust. 即祭酒来召唤神灵。

God 英文词源

god

god: [OE] Similar in form though it may be, and appropriate as the semantic connection would be, god is not etymologically related to good. It probably comes from an Indo-European *ghut-. This may be related to Sanskrit havate and Old Church Slavonic zovetu, both meaning ‘call’, and if so the underlying etymological meaning of god would be ‘that which is invoked’. The English word’s immediate ancestor was prehistoric Germanic *guth-, which also produced German gott, Dutch god, and Swedish and Danish gud.

god (n.)

Old English god "supreme being, deity; the Christian God; image of a god; godlike person," from Proto-Germanic *guthan (cognates: Old Saxon, Old Frisian, Dutch god, Old High German got, German Gott, Old Norse guð, Gothic guþ), from PIE *ghut- "that which is invoked" (cognates: Old Church Slavonic zovo "to call," Sanskrit huta- "invoked," an epithet of Indra), from root *gheu(e)- "to call, invoke."

But some trace it to PIE *ghu-to- "poured," from root *gheu- "to pour, pour a libation" (source of Greek khein "to pour," also in the phrase khute gaia "poured earth," referring to a burial mound; see found (v.2)). "Given the Greek facts, the Germanic form may have referred in the first instance to the spirit immanent in a burial mound" [Watkins]. See also Zeus. In either case, not related to good.

Popular etymology has long derived God from good; but a comparison of the forms ... shows this to be an error. Moreover, the notion of goodness is not conspicuous in the heathen conception of deity, and in good itself the ethical sense is comparatively late. [Century Dictionary, 1902]

Originally a neuter noun in Germanic, the gender shifted to masculine after the coming of Christianity. Old English god probably was closer in sense to Latin numen. A better word to translate deus might have been Proto-Germanic *ansuz, but this was used only of the highest deities in the Germanic religion, and not of foreign gods, and it was never used of the Christian God. It survives in English mainly in the personal names beginning in Os-.

I want my lawyer, my tailor, my servants, even my wife to believe in God, because it means that I shall be cheated and robbed and cuckolded less often. ... If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him. [Voltaire]

God bless you after someone sneezes is credited to St. Gregory the Great, but the pagan Romans (Absit omen) and Greeks had similar customs. God's gift to _____ is by 1938. God of the gaps means "God considered solely as an explanation for anything not otherwise explained by science;" the exact phrase is from 1949, but the words and the idea have been around since 1894. God-forbids was rhyming slang for kids ("children"). God squad "evangelical organization" is 1969 U.S. student slang. God's acre "burial ground" imitates or partially translates German Gottesacker, where the second element means "field;" the phrase dates to 1610s in English but was noted as a Germanism as late as Longfellow.

How poore, how narrow, how impious a measure of God, is this, that he must doe, as thou wouldest doe, if thou wert God. [John Donne, sermon preached in St. Paul's Jan. 30, 1624/5]

God 词组搭配

God 英文释义

1. any supernatural being worshipped as controlling some part of the world or some aspect of life or who is the personification of a force

2. a man of such superior qualities that he seems like a deity to other people;

"he was a god among men"

3. a material effigy that is worshipped as a god;

"thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image"

"money was his god"

God 双语例句

1. Thank God they're not on my manor any more.

谢天谢地，他们再也不在我的辖区里了。

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2. They brought up their children to be God-fearing Christians.

他们将孩子培养成了虔诚的基督教徒。

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3. The President described the disaster as an act of God.

总统将这场灾难说成是天灾。

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4. I hope to God they are paying you well.

我真希望他们给你一份好的酬劳。

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5. You have no right to play God in my life!

你无权对我的人生指手画脚！

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God 实用场景例句

Mars was the Roman god of war.

马尔斯是古罗马战神。

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the rain god

雨神

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Greek gods

希腊诸神

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Do you believe in God ?

你信仰上帝吗？

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Good luck and God bless you .

祝你好运，愿上帝保佑你。

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the Son of God (= Christ)

圣子（耶稣基督）

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I hope to God they are paying you well...

我真希望他们给你一份好的酬劳。

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I wish to God I hadn't met you.

我真希望我不曾认识你。

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God willing, there will be a breakthrough.

如果一切顺利，将会取得突破性的进展。

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Please God, let him telephone me now.

拜托老天了，让他现在就给我来个电话吧。

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...Pan, the God of nature.

自然之神，潘

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...Zeus, king of the gods.

众神之王，宙斯

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To his followers he was a god.

在追随者眼中，他就是神。

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If, God forbid, something goes wrong, I don't know what I would do.

如果哪儿出点儿岔子，我会不知所措的，但愿这样的事情不会发生。

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Are men god's gift to women? Some of them think they are.

男人是上帝赐予女人的礼物吗？有些男人就是这样认为的。

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God help him if he gets in my way...

他要是跟我作对，那就让上帝保佑他吧。

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The boss says you must wear a tie. And God help you if you don't.

老板说你得打领带，如果不听你会倒霉的。

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'God help them,' he said. 'They're beyond help.'

“愿上帝保佑他们吧，”他说，“谁也帮不了他们了。”

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The first song is 11 minutes long, the last nearly the same, and, God help us, there's a drum solo along the way.

第一首歌有11分钟长，最后一首也差不多长，唉，上帝啊，中间还有一个击鼓独奏。

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Gunga spoke God knows how many languages...

天晓得贡嘎会讲多少门语言。

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God alone knows what she thinks.

只有天晓得她在想什么。

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'Where is he now?' 'God knows.'

“他现在在哪里？”“天晓得。”

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I am a man of God.

我是个牧师。

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What in God's name do you expect me to do?...

你究竟要我做什么？

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Why in God's name did you have to tell her?

为什么你非得告诉她呢？

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You have no right to play God in my life!

你无权对我的人生指手画脚！

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Oh my God he's shot somebody...

我的天哪！他开枪打人了。

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God bless you.

上帝保佑你。

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God, how I hated him!...

啊呀！我恨死他了！

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He believes in God...

他信奉上帝。

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