Prophetic
[prə'fetɪk] or [prə'fɛtɪk]
解釋/意思:
(adj.) foretelling events as if by supernatural intervention; 'prophetic writings'; 'prophetic powers'; 'words that proved prophetic' .
艾布拉姆編輯--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(a.) Alt. of Prophetical
阿伊达整理
同義詞及近義詞:
a. Predictive, foretelling, predicting.
乔斯林編輯
同義詞及反義詞:
SYN:Predictive, ominous, portentous, premonitory, fatidical, oracular, sibylline
ANT:Historic, narrative, chronicled, recorded, recitative, commemorative
編輯:米兰达
例句/造句/用法:
- But after the building of the temple and the organization of the priesthood, the prophetic type remains over and outside the formal religious scheme. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- As for sitting still, and learning from the past, or shaping out the future by faithful work done in a prophetic spirit--Why! 伊莉莎白·蓋斯凱爾. 南方與北方.
- From being a temple religion of the old type, the Jewish religion becomes, to a large extent, a prophetic and creative religion of a new type. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Let us ape Roger Bacon in his prophetic mood, and set down what we believe will be the broad fundamentals of the coming world state. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- No soul was prophetic enough to have any foreboding as to what might appear on the trial of Joshua Rigg. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- If Bulstrode should turn out to be a rascal, Frank Hawley had a prophetic soul. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- Many added that he looked sublime and prophetic. 查理斯·狄更斯. 雙城記.
- The prophetic books of the Bible can be but specimens of the prophesyings of that time. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- They are, therefore, retrospective and resultant, instead of being prospective or prophetic. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- But the cruelest habit the modern prophecy-savans have, is that one of coolly and arbitrarily fitting the prophetic shirt on to the wrong man. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- Her uncle's prophetic soul anticipated a splendid future. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- It'll do that afore long, Sir,' observed the tall man, in a low, prophetic voice. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- I had quite a prophetic feeling when Captain Lennox'--and here the voice dropped into a whisper, but Margaret could easily supply the blank. 伊莉莎白·蓋斯凱爾. 南方與北方.
- He may even be thought to have a prophetic anticipation of the discoveries of Quetelet and others, that numbers depend upon numbers; e. 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- And he was not simply a prophetic theorist; he was also a propagandist of the revolt of labour, the revolt of the so-called proletariat. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Another of Medora's fads--really this time it was almost prophetic! 伊蒂絲·華頓. 純真年代.
- As the period fixed for our marriage drew nearer, whether from cowardice or a prophetic feeling, I felt my heart sink within me. 瑪麗·雪萊. 弗蘭肯斯坦.
- Christianity almost from its commencement ceased to be purely prophetic and creative. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- If his prophetic soul had been urged to particularize, it seemed to him that fits would have been the definite expression alighted upon. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- There are many points in which he shows a modern feeling and a prophetic insight like Plato. 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- For all the parade of learning and dialectic is an after-thought--an accident from the fact that the prophetic genius of Marx appeared in Germany under the incubus of Hegel. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- 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.
- But his prophetic eye extends beyond them to the false teachers of other ages who are the creatures of the government under which they live. 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- Nobody controverted the prophetic gentleman's opinion. 查理斯·狄更斯. 霧都孤兒.
- It does not require a particularly acute prophetic vision to see Flower Towns of Poured Houses going up in whole suburbs outside all our chief centres of population. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
編輯:米兰达