The government has given its blessing to the new plan. 政府已经批准了这项计划。
This rain will be a blessing for the farmers. 对农民来说,这场雨真是一场甘霖。
The blessing of the Lord be upon you all. 愿主赐福于你们大家。
blessing
[ noun ]
the formal act of approving
<noun.act> he gave the project his blessing his decision merited the approval of any sensible person
a desirable state
<noun.state> enjoy the blessings of peace a spanking breeze is a boon to sailors
a short prayer of thanks before a meal
<noun.communication> their youngest son said grace
a ceremonial prayer invoking divine protection
<noun.communication>
the act of praying for divine protection
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Bless \Bless\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Blessed}or {Blest}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Blessing}.] [OE. blessien, bletsen, AS. bletsian, bledsian, bloedsian, fr. bl?d blood; prob. originally to consecrate by sprinkling with blood. See {Blood}.] 1. To make or pronounce holy; to consecrate
And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it. --Gen. ii. 3.
2. To make happy, blithesome, or joyous; to confer prosperity or happiness upon; to grant divine favor to.
The quality of mercy is . . . twice blest; It blesseth him that gives and him that takes. --Shak.
It hath pleased thee to bless the house of thy servant, that it may continue forever before thee. --1 Chron. xvii. 27 (R. V. )
3. To express a wish or prayer for the happiness of; to invoke a blessing upon; -- applied to persons.
Bless them which persecute you. --Rom. xii. 14.
4. To invoke or confer beneficial attributes or qualities upon; to invoke or confer a blessing on, -- as on food.
Then he took the five loaves and the two fishes, and looking up to heaven, he blessed them. --Luke ix. 16.
5. To make the sign of the cross upon; to cross (one's self). [Archaic] --Holinshed.
6. To guard; to keep; to protect. [Obs.]
7. To praise, or glorify; to extol for excellences.
Bless the Lord, O my soul: and all that is within me, bless his holy name. --Ps. ciii. 1.
8. To esteem or account happy; to felicitate.
The nations shall bless themselves in him. --Jer. iv. 3.
9. To wave; to brandish. [Obs.]
And burning blades about their heads do bless. --Spenser.
Round his armed head his trenchant blade he blest. --Fairfax.
Note: This is an old sense of the word, supposed by Johnson, Nares, and others, to have been derived from the old rite of blessing a field by directing the hands to all parts of it. ``In drawing [their bow] some fetch such a compass as though they would turn about and bless all the field.'' --Ascham.
{Bless me!} {Bless us!} an exclamation of surprise. --Milton.
{To bless from}, to secure, defend, or preserve from. ``Bless me from marrying a usurer.'' --Shak.
To bless the doors from nightly harm. --Milton.
{To bless with}, {To be blessed with}, to favor or endow with; to be favored or endowed with; as, God blesses us with health; we are blessed with happiness.
Blessing \Bless"ing\, n. [AS. bletsung. See {Bless}, v. t.] 1. The act of one who blesses.
2. A declaration of divine favor, or an invocation imploring divine favor on some or something; a benediction; a wish of happiness pronounces.
This is the blessing, where with Moses the man of God blessed the children of Israel. --Deut. xxxiii. 1.
3. A means of happiness; that which promotes prosperity and welfare; a beneficent gift.
Nature's full blessings would be well dispensed. --Milton.
4. (Bib.) A gift. [A Hebraism] --Gen. xxxiii. 11.
5. Grateful praise or worship.
Late last year, after a grueling search that began with 120 names, Lockheed appointed to its board four new outside directors, all of whom received the blessing of the top 11 institutional holders.
Far from being an uncritical blessing of the market economy, then, the message of "Centesimus Annus" is that the work of "the new capitalism" has hardly begun.
In their heyday, after their debut with federal blessing in 1960 as a spur for real-estate investments, they were popular because they had tax-free status if they paid 90% (currently 95%) of their profits to shareholders.
Paul Frey (Emperor) sings with true musicianship - a blessing in any Strauss tenor - but somewhat palely and passionlessly.
Several offers have been made for the concern, but the Cascades bid appears to have the blessing of the French government.
'My advice to investors is to use any rally to reduce exposure to bonds,' says Mr MacKinnon. Ironically, the sharp rise in long-term yields may turn out to be a blessing.
Such pressure is likely to spread, and the cartel system will slowly crumble. That is a mixed blessing.
The strength of the Japanese yen is "an economic blessing," he says, because it makes Japanese exports more expensive than those from Hong Kong.
According to diplomats, his TV appearance had Washington's blessing.
Where did all these delegates come from? Half came from Puerto Rico, where Gov. Rafael Hernandez-Colon delivered his blessing and 52 previously uncommitted delegates.
Mr. Baker recently gave up an earlier fight against permitting other countries to write off their African debts, leading to today's expected summit blessing of that approach.
All of this is a mixed blessing for the Treasury, which is scheduled to auction $32.25 billion of securities this week in its quarterly refunding of the federal debt.
According to testimony, Miller asked the agents for their "blessing" during a break in his interrogation.
Festivities included a blessing of the grounds by the First American League, representing Indian tribes in Texas and Oklahoma. Clements, Lt.
"If we didn't work with government support and blessing, we wouldn't achieve half of what we do," Allchurch said.
Barenboim was hailed as the ideal figure to transform the company, and his appointment in 1992 - with a 10-year contract worth DM10m - had the blessing of Richard von Weizsaecker, the president. But change has been slower than anticipated.
And that could be a mixed blessing.
"It's a blessing," proclaimed Eric Coloney, a Peachtree City parent opposed to the "Impressions" reading series.
Mandatory conservation would be a blessing to Gerald Lewerenz, of St. Paul, who believes his neighbor, Gary Flowers, is depleting an aquifer used by about two dozen families.
Work-rule changes have been far more common in GM plants than in Ford plants in the past year, and have often received the blessing of the UAW's leadership.
Finally, as a Delaware corporation, Square D enjoys the protection of state-imposed requirements that hostile takeovers get the blessing of a 85% majority vote.
"The best blessing I've had in my life is feeling I don't have to define the various influences. `Now we're going to do a reggae song, a jazz song.'
The Palestinians would need the blessing of the PLO.
I will pray that God's blessing be with you all." Mother Teresa founded the Missionaries of Charity, an order of 3,000 nuns in 87 countries, in 1950.
"I go from here to the Middle East with your blessing to sustain the effort" to spur the Arab-Israeli peace process, Shultz responded in front of reporters and photographers.
But with the department's blessing, airlines often set up voting trusts so that they can buy more than 10% of the other carrier's stock while the department reviews the action.
The Rev. William Martin of St. Wendelin Roman Catholic shook holy water at the crops in all four directions as he gave a blessing of the field.
Capturing Noriega might have been a mixed blessing for the Panamanians.
Being so, we are the marvel and the mystery of the world, for that enduring liberty is no less a blessing than the abundance of the earth.
The Vatican said in a statement that it approved and gave its blessing to the decision.