amen: [OE] Amen was originally a Hebrew noun, āmēn ‘truth’ (based on the verb āman ‘strengthen, confirm’), which was used adverbially as an expression of confirmation or agreement. Biblical texts translated from Hebrew simply took it over unaltered (the Greek Septuagint has it, for example), and although at first Old English versions of the gospels substituted an indigenous term, ‘truly’, by the 11th century amen had entered English too.
amen
Old English, from Late Latin amen, from Ecclesiastical Greek amen, from Hebrew amen "truth," used adverbially as an expression of agreement (as in Deut. xxvii:26, I Kings i:36; compare Modern English verily, surely, absolutely in the same sense), from Semitic root a-m-n "to be trustworthy, confirm, support." Used in Old English only at the end of Gospels, otherwise translated as Soelic! or Swa hit ys, or Sy! As an expression of concurrence after prayers, it is recorded from early 13c.
雙語(yǔ)例句
1. We ask this through our Lord, Amen.
奉主之名而求，阿門。
來(lái)自《權(quán)威詞典》
2. The committee gave its amen to the proposal.
委員會(huì)核準(zhǔn)了這建議.
來(lái)自《現(xiàn)代英漢綜合大詞典》
3. In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost, Amen.