miraculous

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mi·rac·u·lous /mɪˈrækjələs/ adjectiveadj

1 LUCKYvery good, completely unexpected, and often very lucky 不可思议的；神奇的；非凡的

She made a miraculous recovery from her injuries.

她受伤后奇迹般地康复了。

They had a miraculous escape when their car plunged into a river.

他们的车冲入河里，而他们却奇迹般地逃生了。

► see thesaurus at lucky

2 a miraculous action or event is believed to be caused by God, and is impossible according to the ordinary laws of nature 神奇的；神迹的；超自然的

miraculous powers of healing

神奇的愈合能力

—miraculously adverbadv

Miraculously, no one was killed.

不可思议的是无人丧生。

Examples from the Corpus

miraculous• Try to live as though every moment is miraculous.• In Love again, the new beloved was perfect and miraculous.• It is nothing short of miraculous.• A teenager had a miraculous escape last night when the car she was travelling in overturned.• After 100 miraculous kilometres we met the other bus returning to Francistown.• For centuries after his death, the insane were dipped in the waters of his fountains, where many made miraculous recoveries.• The doctor gave her a month to live but she made a miraculous recovery.• Water is a miraculous substance remover; it will remove probably 85 percent of all stains.• The emergency services said it was miraculous that no-one was seriously injured.• It was a supernatural, miraculous thing, like the haloes of the saints...• Pat managed to get 147 tapes and 100 books plus lots of magazines through customs in a miraculous way.

mi·rac·u·lous adjectiveadj

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