| 釋義 |
prophet /'profit; 'profit/ n 1 person who teaches religion and claims that his teaching comes to him directly from God: 先知; 代神發(fā)言者: the ~ Isaiah; 先知以賽亞; Muhammad, the P~ of Islam. 回敎先知穆罕欽德。 the P~s, the prophetical books of the early ~s of socialism. 威廉毛嘎斯,社會主義早期的鼓吹者之一。 3 person who tells, or claims to tell, what will happen in the future: 預言者: I'm not a good weather- ~. 我不大會預測天氣。 ~ ess /./-es; -is n woman ~. 女先知; 女提倡者; 女預言者。. of the Old Testament. 舊約圣經(jīng)中的預言書。 2 pioneer of a new theory, cause, etc; advocate: 新理論、主義等的鼓吹者; 提倡者: William Morris, one |