divination
英 [ˌdɪvɪˈneɪʃn]
美 [ˌdɪvɪˈneɪʃn]
n. 占卜; 预测; 预言
复数:divinations
BNC.34177 / COCA.18486
牛津词典
noun
- 占卜;预测;预言
the act of finding out and saying what will happen in the future
柯林斯词典
- 占卜(术);预测;预言
Divinationis the art or practice of discovering what will happen in the future using supernatural means.
英英释义
noun
- the art or gift of prophecy (or the pretense of prophecy) by supernatural means
- a prediction uttered under divine inspiration
- successful conjecture by unusual insight or good luck
双语例句
- To foretell through or as if through the art of divination.
占卜,预言通过或似通过占卜术预言。 - They prayed to Buddhist and Shinto gods ( every vesselcarried a shrine), and they prepared divination papers to find out where theywere.
他们向佛教和神道教的神明祈祷(每艘船上都有神龛),通过写有预言的纸来了解现在的位置。 - They're part of an ancient Greek divination ritual.
他们是古希腊占卜仪式的一部分。 - In divination, the judgement of two men out of the three engaged in it should be followed.
任用这些人从事卜筮时,三个人的占卜,应当信从其中两个人的判断。 - Admittedly, this is Wei "divination, astrology," the rise of a very close contact.
诚然,这与魏晋玄学之兴起有极密的联系。 - For there shall be no more any vain vision nor flattering divination within the house of Israel.
从此,在以色列家中必不再有虚假的异象和奉承的占卜。 - These characters were mostly prayers by Shang rulers at divination and sacrificial rites, as well as simple records.
这些文字,大都是商代统治者占卜祭祀时的祝辞和简单记事。 - Don't you know that a man like me can find things out by divination?
你们岂不知象我这样的人必能占卜吗? - But geomancy means divination according to geographic features, so the translation is not entirely correct.
但是土占意指根据地理特征来占卜,所以这个翻译并非完全正确。 - Divination based on facial features.
占相术以面部特征为基础的占卜。