汉英词典
Chinese-English Dictionary
MEANING OF 老天爷
老天爷 (老天爺)
God / Heavens
〈名〉迷信的人认为天上有个主宰一切的神,尊称这个神叫老天爷。现多用来表示惊叹:~,这是怎么回事儿!
lǎo tiān () yé
EXAMPLE SENTENCES

嗬,老天爷!看是谁在这儿。

Well, I'll be buggered! Look who's here.

老天爷作证,玛丽,我不是开玩笑。

Honest to God, Mary, I'm not joking.

老天爷呀!千万别让他死啊。

Please God, don't let him be dead.

老天爷!我的脚疼死我了!

Oh, God! My dogs are killing me!

好啦,看在老天爷的份上,你不必道歉了。

Well, for Heaven's sake, you don't need to apologize.

真是对不起老天爷,我拿顶针敲了汤姆的头。

And God forgive me, I cracked Tom's head with my thimble.

别那么咳个不停,吉蒂,看老天爷份上吧!

Don't keep coughing so, Kitty, for heaven's sake!

六级的大风伴着沙尘暴,入春以来“老天爷”再度“变脸”。

Again dust storm with howling force 6 wind unveiled the fierce countenance of early spring.

我站起来讲话,可是—老天爷呀—我发现自己忘了带讲稿。

I stood up to speak and—horror of horrors—realized I had left my notes behind.

“哦!老天爷”,其忆曰,“吾之女弟子所言甚是,此实乃一有趣之化合物也。”

"By golly", he recalls, "she was absolutely right: this was an interesting compound."