1·It wasn't until 1906 that a scholar came across the prayer book in a library and realized it was a palimpsest, and that the underlying layer of texts could only have come from Archimedes.
直到1906年，一位学者才在图书馆偶然发现了这本祈祷书，并意识到它是一本重写本，而且底层的文本只可能出自阿基米德之手。
2·What does your prayer book say and that sort of thing?
你要用什么祈祷书之类的事情？
3·A prayer book used by the king to pass love notes in church.
这是国王在教堂里用来传递情书的祈祷书。
4·About 1477, in London, the first printed advertisement in English announced a prayer book sale.
大约在1477年，伦敦有了第一则用英文印制的广告，宣告有一本祈祷书出售。
5·She may be seen walking to covent garden church, with a starved foot-boy behind carrying her prayer book.
我们看到她正朝修道院花园教堂走去，一个面黄肌瘦的小厮捧著祈祷书，跟在她后边。
6·The Prayer Book has provided a flexible enough nexus of beliefs to hold together the different church parties.
祈祷书为各信仰之间建起了足够灵活的联系纽带，以期将各个不同教派凝聚在一起。
7·The modern wording has continued to be used in the CofE's latest prayer book, Commons Worship, adopted in 2006.
这一现代的结婚公告词继续被用于英国国教会在2006年最新采用的祈祷书《众拜书》中。
8·A train passenger traveling from Baghdad to Karbala, a Shiite holy city some 60 miles south of the capital, reads a prayer book.
一名从巴格达到卡尔巴拉的乘客正在火车上阅读祈祷书，卡尔巴拉是距离首都南部60英里外的圣城。
9·Bohemia: the groom gives the bride a rosary, a prayer book, a girdle with three keys to guard her virtue, a fur cap, and a silver wedding ring.
波黑人：新郎向新娘赠送一串念珠，一本祈祷文，一根上面串着三把钥匙的腰带(用以保护她的贞洁)，一顶毛皮帽，一个银的结婚戒指。
10·I've even written a book (the Worrywart's Prayer book) and gained insight I'd like to share in the hopes that you, too, can get a grip and stop worrying.
我甚至写了一本书(《杞人忧天者的祈祷书》)与大家分享我的领悟，希望你们也能抓住窍门，停止忧虑。