blessing
noun uk/ˈbles.ɪŋ/ us/ˈbles.ɪŋ/
(RELIGIOUS WORDS)
[ C or U ]祈神赐福;祝福
a request by a priest for God to take care of a particular person or a group of people, or God's act of doing this
The mass always ends with a blessing. 弥撒总是以祈神赐福结束。
We ask God's blessing on Joan at this difficult time. 在这个困难时刻我们祈求上帝保佑琼。
(LUCKY SITUATION)
[ C ]幸事；喜事
something that is extremely lucky or makes you happy
It was a blessing that no one was killed in the accident. 事故中没有人死真是万幸。
(APPROVAL)
someone's blessing 同意;允许
approval that someone gives to a plan or action
The committee has given its blessing to the plan. 委员会批准了这项计划。
Eventually they got married with her father's blessing. 最终他们征得她父亲的同意结了婚。
The writer's widow had already given her blessing to the project.
He went to his mother to seek her blessing.
With his blessing, I moved to New York and took an apartment there.
Idiom
a blessing in disguiseidiom 祸中之福，因祸得福
something that seems bad or unlucky at first, but results in something good happening later
Losing that job was a blessing in disguise really. 失去那份工作真是因祸得福。