| 词汇 | prophesy |
| 释义 | prophesy verb[ I or T ] uk /ˈprɒf.ə.saɪ/ us /ˈprɑː.fə.saɪ/ to say that you believe something will happen in the future: 预言 Few could have prophesied this war.几乎没有人预言会发生这场战争。 [ + that ]He prophesied that the present government would only stay four years in office.他预言说现任政府只能维持4年。 [ + question word ]I wouldn't like to prophesy what will happen to that marriage!我不愿意预言那桩婚姻将来会怎么样！ Predicting things and intuition augur augury bellwether betcha bode herald horizon scanning hunch inkling instinct prefigure premonition premonitory presage prescience telepathy there's no knowing/telling/sayingidiom unforeseeable unintuitively unreasoning prophesy | American Dictionaryprophesy verb[ T ] us/ˈprɑf·əˌsɑɪ/ to say what will happen in the future: He prophesied a Democratic defeat in the next election. Examples of prophesyprophesy The enthusiasts, who claimed to prophesy and to have direct divine inspiration, were increasingly seen in the seventeenth century as melancholies. Some had prophesied, a few had preached, and others had even publicly demonstrated in defence of their forms of worship. He prophesied to them in secret all the happenings that would take place on their journey. We can only safely prophesy the effect of advances that are already in the pipeline. Indeed, he had prophesied the exact opposite: a decline of productivist dogma in favor of progressive experimentation. True prophesy, the poem instructs, resembles the poetess's reflections more than the radical's ambitious scientific reforms. Ears are only made "averse" by the "noise" of ecclesiastical "scrannel pipes"; they will be reconciled to "a verse" containing the music of true prophesy. He prophesied that in the future the victims might be rehabilitated (p. 96). Without being at all adventurous in prophesy, we can be certain that the practice of pediatric cardiology will undergo major changes in the next decade. The volume also devotes attention to the application of the doctrine of middle knowledge to other debates in philosophical theology, such as free will, soteriology and prophesy. The 1960s, in short, have seen a surge of exploration and technological wizardry which few could have foreseen or dared to prophesy even as late as 1959. In this context, ' prophesy ' does not mean to foretell the future but to preach and instruct from a personal rather than an institutional point of view. Quite the opposite is the case with the treble choristers, who simply repeat text or music, such as the fool prophesy or the communion text and motifs. Even after the presumed revolution, art is still the 'herald' of the future, prophesying what has produced it. Experience has entirely falsified all the dire consequences that were prophesied as to what would happen. 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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