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fortune-teller

/fawr-chuhn-tel-er/US // ˈfɔr tʃənˌtɛl ər //

算命先生,算命师,算命的人,算命的

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n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a person who claims the ability to predict the future.

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Examples

  • The building used to be an all-girls school, and when it was initially purchased by Fortune it was dilapidated.

  • Stanley Richards, Senior Vice President of the Fortune Society, gave a tour along with a few residents.

  • That good fortune meant CNN had the only TV correspondent on the scene.

  • Hitchcock had the historical good fortune to have worked from silent films through television.

  • “I suppose she'll want a fortune as well,” he says, looking at me as if I were Liv Ullmann's agent.

  • Sleek finds it far harder work than fortune-making; but he pursues his Will-o'-the-Wisp with untiring energy.

  • The fortune was proving quite as large as he had expected, and not even an inquest had been held upon the dead man.

  • But "the cards never forgive," and as a rule Dame Fortune is relentless to the reckless player.

  • Aristide always regarded the fortune of the moment as if it would last forever.

  • The fact that her fortune was vaguely threatened did not cause her anxiety: she scarcely realized it.