oracle 的定义
- 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.
oracle 近义词
prophecy
更多oracle例句
- 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.