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prophecy

/prof-uh-see/US // ˈprɒf ə si //UK // (ˈprɒfɪsɪ) //

预言,谶语

Related Words

revelation启示,启示录,揭示,揭秘apocalypse启示录,启示,世界末日,灾难prognostication预测,预言,预估,预报cast铸造,浇铸,铸就,浇注augury预兆,预言,预示,预示着soothsaying吐露心声,吐槽,吐真言,吐槽大会prognosis预后,预测,预言,预示vision愿景,视觉,视野,视力oracle神谕,神谕者,甲骨文,神谕学forecast预测,预告,预报,预计presage预言,预示着,预见,预示divination占卜,卜筮,卜算子,卜卦prevision预见,预测,前瞻性,前瞻foretelling预言,预示,预言家,预测second sight第二视角,第二视觉,第二印象,第二眼

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural proph·e·cies.

    • : the foretelling or prediction of what is to come.
    • : something that is declared by a prophet, especially a divinely inspired prediction, instruction, or exhortation.
    • : a divinely inspired utterance or revelation: oracular prophecies.
    • : the action, function, or faculty of a prophet.

Synonyms & Antonyms

nounprediction
Forms: prophecies
Synonyms
apocalypse启示录,启示,世界末日,灾难prognostication预测,预言,预估,预报revelation启示,启示录,揭示,揭秘augury预兆,预言,预示,预示着cast铸造,浇铸,铸就,浇注divination占卜,卜筮,卜算子,卜卦forecast预测,预告,预报,预计foretelling预言,预示,预言家,预测oracle神谕,神谕者,甲骨文,神谕学presage预言,预示着,预见,预示prevision预见,预测,前瞻性,前瞻prognosis预后,预测,预言,预示soothsaying吐露心声,吐槽,吐真言,吐槽大会vision愿景,视觉,视野,视力second sight第二视角,第二视觉,第二印象,第二眼

Examples

  • QAnon’s followers have faced failed prophecies before, but last week appeared to be the movement’s most severe breaking point.

  • Many of Q’s prophecies had been kicked down the road to the inauguration.

  • At some point, it merely becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy to examine these questions.

  • He’s not playing to fulfill a prophecy whispered to him since he was a teenager.

  • We cannot afford for the next generation of climate justice leaders’ dread to become a self-fulfilling prophecy.

  • “Instead of me fulfilling my prophecy,” he said, “I have to start one,” and that was a lot of pressure.

  • His prophecy kicked off a vertiginous frenzy of doomsaying, and he was thrown in jail by fearful Bolognese officials.

  • It was a self-fulfilling prophecy, a feedback loop of rational and irrational fears.

  • NB: Prophecy is the key source of mystery and danger in our books.

  • The Prime Minister shut it down with a biblical prophecy, first spoken in English then in Hebrew.

  • That the whole people will, in gospel times, be united in such a relation the voice of prophecy would seem to indicate.

  • A prophecy of the desolation of Moab for their pride: but their captivity shall at last be released.

  • From the use of a term employed in prophecy in reference to the waters of the sea, this, moreover, appears.

  • The whole adult population of the United States are witnesses of the fulfillment of this prophecy.

  • Prophecy declares, indeed, the purposes of God, but specially the carrying of them into effect in individual cases.

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