【句子】When you showed up, I didn’t think you had a prayer. 【Modern Family S2E17】【发音】[wen] [ju:] [ʃəʊd] [ʌp] [aɪ] [ˈdɪd.ənt] [θɪŋk] [ju:] [hæd] [ə] [preə(r)]【发音技巧】showed up连读;didn’t think不完全失去爆破;had a连读;【翻译】你出现的时候,我觉得你没什么希望。【适用场合】prayer这个单词指的是祈祷,那have a prayer什么意思:have a prayer这个表达通常来说会和否定词not连用,not…have a prayer没有做成某件事情的机会/可能性;If you say that someone hasn't got a prayer, you mean that it is impossible for them to succeed in what they are trying to do.或者简单一些:not have a chance or possibility of success:eg: You think you can beat me? Ha! You don't have a prayer.你觉得你能打败我?哈,你根本没机会的。eg: With that giant supermarket opening up across the street, our little grocery store won't have a prayer of staying open.随着街对面那家大超市的开业,我们的小小的杂货铺要想继续营业下去,基本不太可能了。其实后半句话你也可以说…our little grocery store won’t stand a chance…或者…our little grocery store won’t have a chance…再或者:…there's no way our little grocery store can surviveeg: They didn’t have a prayer without a backer for the new company.要是没有人支持那家新公司的话,他们根本没希望的。eg: She'd been caught from behind and hadn't got a prayer of freeing herself.她被别人从后面抓住,根本没有脱身的可能。【尝试翻译以下句子,并留言在文章留言区】 碰上这么大的暴风雨,这些登山者们将毫无希望。