| 词汇 | astrologer |
| 释义 | astrologer noun[ C ] uk /əˈstrɒl.ə.dʒər/ us /əˈstrɑː.lə.dʒɚ/ someone who studies astrology and uses it to tell people how they believe it will affect their lives 占星师 Astrology astrological astrology horoscope numerological numerologically numerologist retrograde sign of the zodiac star star sign stargaze stargazer stargazing transit zodiac zodiacal Examples of astrologerastrologer If philosophy or astrology were revealed to the ancients, then the sayings of philosophers or astrologers and the prophecies of inspired seers are equivalent. The popular astrologers claim that the forms in this world obey the spheres that carry their appearances (in the images of animals). We have not only mathematicians becoming philosophers, but astrologers becoming experimentalists, statesmen becoming naturalists, and alchemists becoming entrepreneurs. This fact, the author adds, the astrologers had to take into consideration in their predictions. If the patient gets a chance to glance at it, she sees something similar to an astrologer's map (fig. 2). Women are chided for believing in omens and consulting astrologers and palmists. When a courtier asked the astrologer how long he (the astrologer) would live, the astrologer said he still had many years. At this, the courtier chopped off the astrologer's head, proving conclusively his inability to predict the future. The scribe of the tablet introduces himself as an astrologer-priest. Both the sentences are taken from the speech of a roadside astrologer making predictions by reading a client's palm. Finally, our just man was an admirable astrologer, but he only loved astrology so that he could distinguish the times and prognosticate those which would be prosperous for his congregation. Legnano has also read (and probably lifted from) other astrologers as well, although his borrowings betray a lack of true expertise on his part. In the intense scrutiny for the signs of the times, all routes to knowledge had value, whether the verses of an ancient prophetess or the calculations of a contemporary astrologer. It is beginning to look like fair comment on many of our economists to-day: they are behaving like the astrologers of old. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We smile indulgently at the newspaper astrologers when they turn out to be wrong. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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