Sibyl
['sɪbɪl] or ['sɪbl]
解释:
(noun.) (ancient Rome) a woman who was regarded as an oracle or prophet.
(noun.) a woman who tells fortunes.
比利校对--From WordNet
解释:
(n.) A woman supposed to be endowed with a spirit of prophecy.
(n.) A female fortune teller; a pythoness; a prophetess.
整理:马提
解释:
n. in ancient mythology one of certain women possessing powers of divination and prophecy: a prophetess an old sorceress.—adjs. Sibyl′lic Sib′ylline pertaining to uttered or written by sibyls: prophetical.—n. Sib′yllist a believer in the so-called sibylline prophecies.—Sibylline Oracles a series of pretended prophecies in Greek hexameters written by Alexandrian Jews and Christians and supposed to date from the 2d century B.C. down to the 3d century A.D. or according to Ewald even the 6th.
校对:鲁珀特
例句:
- At length we arrived at a large, desert, dark cavern, which the Lazzeroni assured us was the Sibyl's Cave. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
- Doubtless the leaves of the Cumaean Sibyl have suffered distortion and diminution of interest and excellence in my hands. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
- Her sole book in such hours was the dim chronicle of memory or the sibyl page of anticipation. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
- At length my friend, who had taken up some of the leaves strewed about, exclaimed, This is the Sibyl's cave; these are Sibylline leaves. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
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