词汇 | prophetic |
释义 | prophetic adjective uk /prəˈfet.ɪk/ us /prəˈfet̬.ɪk/ saying correctly what will happen in the future: 预言的,预示的 Much of Orwell's writing now seems grimly prophetic.奥威尔的许多文学作品现在看来似乎是冷酷的预言。 Synonyms clairvoyant predictive prescientformal visionary(ABLE TO IMAGINE THE FUTURE) 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 Related wordprophetically prophetic | American Dictionaryprophetic adjective us/prəˈfet̬·ɪk/ accurately saying what will happen: His predictions about how computer technology would revolutionize the workplace were prophetic (= true). Examples of propheticprophetic Prophetic voices are appropriate and important, but insufficient to policy. This is part of the prophetic role of the churches to which the report draws attention. My nomenclatural impulse had acquired the character of a prophetic vision. In theory, his prophetic method implies that legalism and spirituality are equally significant for ensuring the revitalization of the umma. Obviously, there is a hierarchy, with prophetic discourse, although ambiguous, ranking as the most authoritative, and the poetic and mystic forms at the bottom. It is only now that the poetic discourse, abandoning the prophetic language, turns to the past tense, taking on a narrative character. Such an attempt to chart the development of the prophetic and ultimately creative literary genre of speculative fiction proves at times to be highly convincing. The respective taxation of imagination by both thought and perception becomes problematic in relation to what a waking state, prophetic vision entails. There, you made some prophetic statements about the advancement of computer technology. He calculated a lunar year as 349 days, with the beast's period of forty-two prophetic months equivalent to 1,222 years and beginning in 475. This is important, for, as we will see, authentic prophetic vision involves aspects of both kinds of reason. This result forced a re-evaluation of prophetic circumstances. His exploitation of political thought in the prophetic mode amounted to the radical subordination of civil politics to religious concerns. It requires a kind of prophetic voice to call the profession forward. It is informative, powerful, prophetic and perhaps most strikingly of all, lyric. 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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