| 英语单词 | prophetic |
|---|---|
| 英美音标 | 英 [prə'fetɪk] 美 [prə'fetɪk] |
| 中文释义 | adj.预言的;先知的;预示的 |
| 英语例句 | (1) His prophetic remarks frightened us. (2) A person considered to be a source of wise counsel or prophetic opinions. (3) Her early achievements were prophetic of her future greatness. |
| 中文例句 | (1) 他那预言性的话吓着了我们。 (2) 先知被认为具有明智意见或先知见解的人 (3) 她早期的成就预示了她日後卓尔不群. |
| vocabulary简明 | If you make a prediction and it comes true, your words were prophetic. Like the time you warned your dad against eating a whole box of donuts. He got sick, right? That was a prophetic warning. |
| vocabulary扩展 | The adjective prophetic traces all the way back to the Greek word prophētikos, meaning "predicting." You know who's really good at predicting stuff? Prophets. Usually, prophetic is used to describe a thing — like a warning, a feeling, or a complaint — rather than a person. |
| 柯林斯解释 | 1 [ADJ-GRADED 能被表示程度的副词或介词词组修饰的形容词]预言(性)的;预示的 If something was prophetic, it described or suggested something that did actually happen later.
2 [ADJ 形容词]预言的;先知的;预言者的 Prophetic means related to a prophecy or a prophet. [usu ADJ n]
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