God bless you

感叹词 intj.
中文释义

英文释义

感叹词 intj.
  1. May God bless you; said as a short prayer, benediction, or valediction for the recipient; usually religiously; sometimes nonliterally but rhetorically or culturally.
    — I heard you helped them with clearing away the downed tree. God bless you! The Lord provides!
  2. Said to somebody who has sneezed, as a rhetorical response; alternative form of bless you.

词形变化

God bless you ! canonical

词源

From Middle English God blesse you, God blisse you. A clause in the present subjunctive inherited intact from a time when English was freely productive of it. Diachronically it is not a shortening; synchronically it is often surface-analyzed as such; present-day English has a heavy need for the modal auxiliary (may) to ensure syntactic clarity, whereas earlier English could more easily drop it.
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