Divination
[,dɪvɪ'neɪʃ(ə)n] or [,dɪvɪ'neʃən]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) the art or gift of prophecy (or the pretense of prophecy) by supernatural means.
(noun.) successful conjecture by unusual insight or good luck.
錄入:莱斯特--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) The act of divining; a foreseeing or foretelling of future events; the pretended art discovering secret or future by preternatural means.
(n.) An indication of what is future or secret; augury omen; conjectural presage; prediction.
校對:南森
同義詞及近義詞：
n. [1]. Divining, foretelling.[2]. Presage, prediction, prophecy.
整理:默娜
同義詞及反義詞：
SYN:Prediction, sorcery, magic, witchcraft, augury, omens
ANT:Instruction, information, investigation, study, learning
編輯:桑德拉
娱乐性解釋/意思：
n. The art of nosing out the occult. Divination is of as many kinds as there are fruit-bearing varieties of the flowering dunce and the early fool.
整理:泰勒
例句/造句/用法:
- Seeing bad signs, one, with fear, imagines an end for himself and one thinks that imagining comes by divination, Robert Jordan concluded. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 喪鐘為誰而鳴.
- It was finished, her spell of divination in him. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- Her dark, dilated eyes rested on Birkin, as if she could conjure the truth of the future out of him, as out of some instrument of divination. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- Yet he never saw her, or exchanged a word with her, without feeling that, after all, May's ingenuousness almost amounted to a gift of divination. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 純真年代.
編輯:特鲁迪