| 英语单词 | prophecy |
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| 英美音标 | 英 ['prɒfəsi] 美 ['prɑːfəsi] |
| 中文释义 | n.预言 =prophesy. |
| 英语例句 | (1) He seemed to have the gift of prophecy. (2) No prophecy can be expected to go on all fours. |
| 中文例句 | (1) 他似乎有预言的天赋. (2) 凡预言皆不能指望其完全应验。 |
| vocabulary简明 | If a fortune teller made a prophecy that you were going to become a billionaire in your lifetime, you'd be pretty excited. A prophecy is a prediction, or a magical look into the future. |
| vocabulary扩展 | The noun prophecy means a magical foreknowledge, although it can also be used in a playful way to describe an ordinary guess or prediction about the future. So you could say, "Her prophecy for the weather next week is incredibly depressing." The word comes from the Greek prophetia — literally, "gift of interpreting the will of the gods". The verb form is prophesy, or predict, and it's spelled with an s instead of a c. |
| 柯林斯解释 | 1 [N-VAR 可变名词]预言 A prophecy is a statement in which someone says they strongly believe that a particular thing will happen.
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