n. 1.天启,神谕;(古希腊的)神谕宣示所。 2.【宗教】神殿;(古犹太神神殿的)至圣所。 3.神使,先知,预言者;大智者;〔常谑〕圣人,哲人。 4. 预言;圣言,名言;善断,聪明的判断。 5.〔pl.〕基督教《圣经》。 短语和例子 a great oracle on …方面的绝对权威。 oracle bone (inscriptions) 甲骨(文)。 Sir O- 独断的人。 work the oracle (贿赠僧侣而)得到自己希望的天启;(用贿赂)达到自己的目的;用手段诱人赞助使计划实现。
a shrine where an oracular god is consulted
a prophecy (usually obscure or allegorical) revealed by a priest or priestess; believed to be infallible
an authoritative person who divines the future 同义词:prophet, prophesier, seer, vaticinator,
In Classical Antiquity, an oracle was a person or agency considered to be a source of wise counsel or prophetic predictions or precognition of the future, inspired by the gods. As such it is a form of divination.
例句与用法
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This oracle was still flourishing in 332 b.c . 这个神示殿在公元前332年依然很兴旺。
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The ancient oracles were often vague and equivocal . 古代的神谕常是意义模糊和模棱两可的。
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The people were much puzzled by this answer of the oracle . 大家对神使的回答感到非常惶惑。
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They sought the woods, and revolved the oracle in their minds . 他们躲进树林,苦苦思索着神谕的含义。
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The sibyl gave no aid to restoring them again, and the oracle was irreparably lost . 西比尔不会把它们恢复原状,神谕便无可弥补地丢失了。
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You bring out all this stuff, as if it were the last revelation from some kind of oracle . 你说的都是废话,而装的倒象某种神灵的最后启示。
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His remarks, the clothing he wore, his gestures, the way he blinked his eyes were regarded as signs from an oracle . 他说的话、衣着、姿势、瞪眼睛、都是地方上的金科玉律。
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China has the earliest record of a solar prominence in the world. carried in the oracle bone inscriptions of the yin dynasty ( in the 14th century b.c. ) were the routine records of the solar eclipse and the lunar eclipse , and the earliest record of a solar prominence in the world . 殷朝甲骨文中,已有日食和月食的常规纪录,以及世界上最早的日珥记录。
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- you know the oracle ? - everyone knows the oracle -你认识先知? -大家都认识先知
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Data type stored on an oracle server 表示存储在oracle服务器上的大型对象二进制(