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soothsayer

/sooth-sey-er/US // ˈsuθˌseɪ ər //UK // (ˈsuːθˌseɪə) //

占卜师,预言家,占卜者,算命先生

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a person who professes to foretell events.

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Examples

  • Plenty of social media soothsayers are claiming that no one will want to go back to theaters now that they’re used to streaming big new releases at home.

  • There’s a moment in Act I of Macbeth when Banquo, upon meeting the soothsayer witches, speaks, of, gasp, the B-word.

  • No wonder they were often considered bad omens: no soothsayer could tell when one might appear.

  • It's at a time like this that Germans yearn most for Paul the Octopus, the great mollusk soothsayer for Germany.

  • A soothsayer warned Julius Caesar about the Ides of March—a catastrophe looming in the middle of the month.

  • But soothsayer Simon Cowell, who created and judges the show, saw the future.

  • The italicized phrase isn't exactly a hallmark of the sort of hubristic soothsayer Abrams seems to describe.

  • In the midst of the way there arose a woman of Ireland, that clept herself as a soothsayer.

  • Last night I dreamed a dream; and it needs no wise man, no cunning soothsayer, to read the interpretation thereof.

  • Charmian, addressing Alexas in a flattering manner, asked where was the soothsayer he praised so much.

  • Louis received a similar reply from a soothsayer, who had foretold the death of one of his favourites.

  • Greatly incensed, he arranged for the death of the soothsayer when he should leave the royal presence after an interview.