angel
天使,天使的,天使的故事
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- : one of a class of spiritual beings; a celestial attendant of God. In medieval angelology, angels constituted the lowest of the nine celestial orders.
- : a conventional representation of such a being, in human form, with wings, usually in white robes.
- : a messenger, especially of God.
- : a person who performs a mission of God or acts as if sent by God: an angel of mercy.
- : a person having qualities generally attributed to an angel, as beauty, purity, or kindliness.
- : a person whose actions and thoughts are consistently virtuous.
- : an attendant or guardian spirit.
- : a deceased person whose soul is regarded as having been accepted into heaven.
- : a person who provides financial backing for some undertaking, as a play, political campaign, or business venture: A group of angels entered the mix, providing George the leverage he needed to take the startup company in a new direction.Angels seek deals that they can exit in less than a decade.
- : an English gold coin issued from 1470 to 1634, varying in value from 6s. 8d. to 10s. and bearing on its obverse a figure of the archangel Michael killing a dragon.
- : Slang. an image on a radar screen caused by a low-flying object, as a bird.
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an·geled, an·gel·ing or, especially British an·gelled, an·gel·ling.
- : Informal. to provide financial backing for: Two wealthy friends angeled the Broadway revival of his show.
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The financing journey began for Giles Palmer, with angel funding in 2006.
Everything was open for me, Angel and Faith and everything was just working for us.
Her first name was a fitting one for someone who was a steadfast mentor and friend, and an angel to so many.
A university official kept an angel ornament made by a stranger.
Balaji Srinivasan, an angel investor and entrepreneur who previously served as the Chief Technology Officer of Coinbase, earlier this month made a case for why India should embrace bitcoin.
Especially not when the display in question includes an angel falling from the sky in flames, surrounded by Biblical verses.
Lindsay Ellingson, an “angel” for three years, said she had been inspired by Giselle and Heidi Klum.
“I laid out there for two and a half hours and my guardian angel showed up—rapper T.I.,” Stapp told MTV News.
It was the voice of an angel, but I wanted the face, the photos, the video of the family.
Part Grim Reaper, part angel, this deathly saint had few followers, and they mostly worshipped in private.
I reached the spot where she stood, she began to speak, and I took off my hat as if doing reverence to an angel.
"I do think Angel would surely want me to go, if she knew," thought Rosemary.
In two or three minutes Rosemary appeared once more, without her hat and coat, to say that "Angel" had not yet come back.
This was a hard nut to crack, if his past were not to be ruthlessly severed from Angel's by a word.
There was a scamp of a father who had "not been very kind" to Angel, and had been lost, or had thoughtfully lost himself.