Prophet
['prɒfɪt] or ['prɑfɪt]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) an authoritative person who divines the future.
(noun.) someone who speaks by divine inspiration; someone who is an interpreter of the will of God.
布莱恩錄入--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) One who prophesies, or foretells events; a predicter; a foreteller.
(n.) One inspired or instructed by God to speak in his name, or announce future events, as, Moses, Elijah, etc.
(n.) An interpreter; a spokesman.
(n.) A mantis.
編輯:卢克
同義詞及近義詞：
n. Predicter, foreteller, seer, soothsayer, vaticinator.
富兰克林校對
解釋/意思:
n. one who proclaims or interprets the will of God: one who announces things to come: one who predicts or foretells events: (B.) one inspired by God to warn and teach: (pl.) the writings of the prophets.—n.fem. Proph′etess.—ns. Proph′ethood Proph′etship quality office of a prophet.—adjs. Prophet′ic -al pertaining to a prophet: containing prophecy: foreseeing or foretelling events.—adv. Prophet′ically.—n. Proph′etism.—Prophetic office the office of a prophet.—Former prophets Joshua Judges Samuel and Kings; Latter prophets the prophets properly so called; Major prophets the prophets whose books come before that of Hosea; Minor prophets the prophets from Hosea to Malachi; School of the prophets a school among the ancient Jews for training young men as teachers of the people; The prophets one of the three divisions into which the ancient Jews divided their Scriptures—consisting of the former and the latter prophets (see above).
校對:罗杰
例句/造句/用法:
- There is a vein of mysticism in American life, and Mr. Bryan is its uncritical prophet. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- The socialist movement calls him its prophet, and, while many socialists say he is superseded, no one disputes his historical importance. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- But Ayesha, the favourite wife of the Prophet, had always been jealous of Fatima and hostile to Ali. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- The time will come, my darling--I am no prophet, but I say so,--when you WILL be tried. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- What a true prophet, said Ulrica, is an evil conscience! 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- Love had come, as the rod of the master-prophet, to swallow up every minor propensity. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- Oh, now, now, now, the only now, and above all now, and there is no other now but thou now and now is thy prophet. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 喪鐘為誰而鳴.
- All Mohammedans shave their heads, but they are careful to leave a lock of hair for the Prophet to take hold of. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- Rome has always had too much of the shrewdness of the priest and too little of the power of the prophet. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Mankind has certainly come nearer to justifying Mr. Chesterton's observation that one of its favorite games is called Cheat the Prophet. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- Wot's a prophet? 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- And they glorified God, saying, That a great prophet is risen up among us; and That God hath visited his people. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- A false prophet, Mokanna, who said he was God, had a brief but troublesome career. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- But Mecca resolved to avenge Badr, and at the battle of Uhud, near Medina, inflicted an indecisive defeat upon the Prophet's followers. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- He believed not in a god familiar to men, but in a certain Supreme Being, and that Rousseau was his prophet. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Horace, therefore, Juvenal, and Persius, were no prophets, although their lines did seem to indigitate and point at our times. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- In spite of very distinctive features of their own, these two teachers do in a manner arise out of, and in succession to these Jewish prophets. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- The prophets danced, it would seem, somewhat after the Dervish fashion, and uttered oracles. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- The sect of the Anabaptists appeared in Wittenberg in 1521 under three prophets, and broke out into insurrection in 1525. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Usurpers, rebellious generals, and false prophets seemed to have vanished from the Moslem dominions. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- That is what mighty cities declare; and the children of the gods, who were their poets and prophets, bear a like testimony. 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- He had been one of the French prophets, and could act their enthusiastic agitations. 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.
- BOOK IV JUDEA, GREECE, AND INDIA XXI THE HEBREW SCRIPTURES AND THE PROPHETS[157] § 1. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- They found out prophecies of the crucifixion in the prophets--the Gospel of Matthew is particularly insistent upon these prophecies. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Rebecca again looked forth, and almost immediately exclaimed, Holy prophets of the law! 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- What is clearly apparent is that the teaching of Jesus of Nazareth was a _prophetic teaching_ of the new type that began with the Hebrew prophets. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- More than that, there are four half-length figures of prophets, two above and two below the larger pictures. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- Like Balaam and other unwilling prophets, the agents seem moved by an inner compulsion to say and do their allotted parts whether they will or no. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
手打:波莱特