1[countableC]ROPREDICT a statement that something will happen in the future, especially one made by someone with religious or magic powers 预言 → prophet
prophecy (that)
The prophecy that David would become king was fulfilled.
大卫将成为国王的预言应验了。
prophecy of
the prophecy of Isaiah
以赛亚的预言
2[uncountableU]ROPREDICT the power or act of making statements about what will happen in the future 预言(能力)
prophecy• Lij Yasu was never crowned, possibly because he believed a prophecy that if he became king he would die.• the biblicalprophecy of a world war• Teiresias, the prophet who had brought so many distressful prophecies to the royal family, came to bring still another.• His prophecy was now coming true, perhaps even sooner than he would have dreamed.• She had the gift of prophecy, performed many miracles and is known to have mysteriously supplied food for the convent.• Usually these reports concentrate on prophecies of a forthcomingArmageddon but many also describe a direcontemporary situation.• When not experiencing visions, ecstasies, or prophecies, he authoredMoralTheology and Glories of Ma ry.• Amazingly, the manager's prophecy that the team would get into the first division seems to be coming true.• The old woman's prophecies of disaster were soon fulfilled.• Again and again, such propheciesdictate and determine his decisions, his attitudes, his course of action.• Finally, there are the prophecies of Alexander's imminentdeath which were circulating weeks before his death.• For without the women and their connection to the Earth, who would bring forth the prophecies?
prophecy ... fulfilled• It can also happen that one player can fuel the confidence of a teammate, thereby causing a prophecy to be fulfilled.• His prophecy was fulfilled, for the town was delivered at the time of the Paschal feast.• The words of prophecies could be fulfilled after all in many different ways.• Yet last year's prophecy has been fulfilled: an internationalconsumerclass is distorting the fabric of an already damaged country.
ADJECTIVE | VERB + PROPHECY | PREPOSITION | PHRASESADJECTIVE➤self-fulfilling自我應驗的預言◇low expectations that become a self-fulfilling prophecy自我應驗的低期望➤Biblical, Messianic, Old Testament《聖經》中的/彌賽亞的/《舊約》中的預言➤ancient古老的預言➤false假預言VERB + PROPHECY➤make作出預言▸➤fulfil/fulfill實現預言➤become成為預言➤create創建預言PREPOSITION➤prophecy about關於⋯的預言◇Macbeth believed the witches' prophecy about his future.麥克白相信女巫對他的未來的預言。➤prophecy of⋯的預言◇The poem contains a bleak prophecy of war and ruin.這首詩含有對戰爭與毀滅的悲觀的預言。PHRASES➤the gift of prophecy預言的天賦