Divination
[,dɪvɪ'neɪʃ(ə)n] or [,dɪvɪ'neʃən]
解释:
(noun.) the art or gift of prophecy (or the pretense of prophecy) by supernatural means.
(noun.) successful conjecture by unusual insight or good luck.
录入:莱斯特--From WordNet
解释:
(n.) The act of divining; a foreseeing or foretelling of future events; the pretended art discovering secret or future by preternatural means.
(n.) An indication of what is future or secret; augury omen; conjectural presage; prediction.
校对:南森
同义词及近义词：
n. [1]. Divining, foretelling.[2]. Presage, prediction, prophecy.
整理:默娜
同义词及反义词：
SYN:Prediction, sorcery, magic, witchcraft, augury, omens
ANT:Instruction, information, investigation, study, learning
编辑:桑德拉
娱乐性解释：
n. The art of nosing out the occult. Divination is of as many kinds as there are fruit-bearing varieties of the flowering dunce and the early fool.
整理:泰勒
例句:
- Seeing bad signs, one, with fear, imagines an end for himself and one thinks that imagining comes by divination, Robert Jordan concluded. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
- It was finished, her spell of divination in him. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
- Her dark, dilated eyes rested on Birkin, as if she could conjure the truth of the future out of him, as out of some instrument of divination. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
- Yet he never saw her, or exchanged a word with her, without feeling that, after all, May's ingenuousness almost amounted to a gift of divination. 伊迪丝·华顿. 纯真年代.
编辑:特鲁迪