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oracle

/awr-uh-kuhl, or-/US // ˈɔr ə kəl, ˈɒr- //UK // (ˈɒrəkəl) //

神谕,神谕者,甲骨文,神谕学

Related Words

edict诏令,敕令,诏书,谕令apocalypse启示录,启示,世界末日,灾难fortune财富,运气,命运,幸运revelation启示,启示录,揭示,揭秘augury预兆,预言,预示,预示着canon罐头,罐子,罐装,罐体prediction预测,预估,预言,预测值commandment戒律,诫命,诫律,诫prognostication预测,预言,预估,预报answer答案,答案是,答案是什么law法律,法,法律规定,法规divination占卜,卜筮,卜算子,卜卦vision愿景,视觉,视野,视力

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : an utterance, often ambiguous or obscure, given by a priest or priestess at a shrine as the response of a god to an inquiry.
    • : the agency or medium giving such responses.
    • : a shrine or place at which such responses were given: the oracle of Apollo at Delphi.
    • : a person who delivers authoritative, wise, or highly regarded and influential pronouncements.
    • : a divine communication or revelation.
    • : any person or thing serving as an agency of divine communication.
    • : any utterance made or received as authoritative, extremely wise, or infallible.
    • : oracles, the Scriptures.
    • : the holy of holies of the Temple built by Solomon in Jerusalem. 1 Kings 6:16, 19–23.

Synonyms & Antonyms

nounprophecy
Synonyms
answer答案,答案是,答案是什么apocalypse启示录,启示,世界末日,灾难augury预兆,预言,预示,预示着canon罐头,罐子,罐装,罐体commandment戒律,诫命,诫律,诫divination占卜,卜筮,卜算子,卜卦edict诏令,敕令,诏书,谕令fortune财富,运气,命运,幸运law法律,法,法律规定,法规prediction预测,预估,预言,预测值prognostication预测,预言,预估,预报revelation启示,启示录,揭示,揭秘vision愿景,视觉,视野,视力

Examples

  • Vents built into the stone structure, in addition to providing fresh air, may have given the oracle at Chavín a highly engineered voice “worthy of the Wizard of Oz” when the shell trumpets were played inside them.

  • Her very first sculpture, a metallic chrome unicorn aptly titled “Space Oracle,” sits on a pedestal directly in front.

  • And, anyway, what would it take to be a Samuel Gompers at Microsoft, Facebook, Oracle, Amazon, or Google?

  • A Brit by birth, the eight-armed oracle was born in Weymouth, England, in 2008 at the Sea Life Centre.

  • Just this week, Oracle CEO Larry Ellison said Apple was adrift without Steve Jobs.

  • The move will take place on July 15 as software giant Oracle leaves for the New York Stock Exchange.

  • The latter is a square-faced practical man, who is looked up to as a species of oracle by all his friends.

  • The League Oracle admits that "a repeal would injure the farmer, but not so much as he fears."

  • An oracle said that he would not succeed in its erection before a man voluntarily offered himself as a sacrifice.

  • There were in Greece two young rakes, who were told by the oracle to beware of the melampygos or sable posteriors.

  • It is plain that there are more ways than one of explaining such an oracle.

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