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单词 prophesy
释义
prophesy
verb[IorT]
uk
/ˈprɒf.ə.saɪ/us
/ˈprɑː.fə.saɪ/
to say that youbelievesomething willhappenin thefuture:
预言
Few could have prophesied thiswar.几乎没有人预言会发生这场战争。
[+ that]He prophesiedthatthepresentgovernmentwould onlystayfouryearsinoffice.他预言说现任政府只能维持4年。
[+ question word]I wouldn't like to prophesywhat willhappento thatmarriage!我不愿意预言那桩婚姻将来会怎么样！
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(Definition ofprophesyfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

prophesy| American Dictionary

prophesy
verb[T]
us
/ˈprɑf·əˌsɑɪ/
to say what willhappenin thefuture:
He prophesied aDemocraticdefeatin the nextelection.
(Definition ofprophesyfrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofprophesy

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The enthusiasts, who claimed toprophesyand to have direct divine inspiration, were increasingly seen in the seventeenth century as melancholies.
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Some had prophesied, a few had preached, and others had even publicly demonstrated in defence of their forms of worship.
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He prophesied to them in secret all the happenings that would take place on their journey.
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We can only safelyprophesythe effect of advances that are already in the pipeline.
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Indeed, he had prophesied the exact opposite: a decline of productivist dogma in favor of progressive experimentation.
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Trueprophesy, the poem instructs, resembles the poetess's reflections more than the radical's ambitious scientific reforms.
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Ears are only made "averse" by the "noise" of ecclesiastical "scrannel pipes"; they will be reconciled to "a verse" containing the music of trueprophesy.
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He prophesied that in the future the victims might be rehabilitated (p. 96).
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Without being at all adventurous inprophesy, we can be certain that the practice of pediatric cardiology will undergo major changes in the next decade.
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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 andprophesy.
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The 1960s, in short, have seen a surge of exploration and technological wizardry which few could have foreseen or dared toprophesyeven as late as 1959.
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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.
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Quite the opposite is the case with the treble choristers, who simply repeat text or music, such as the foolprophesyor the communion text and motifs.
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Even after the presumed revolution, art is still the 'herald' of the future, prophesying what has produced it.
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Experience has entirely falsified all the dire consequences that were prophesied as to what would happen.
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