divination

英 [ˌdɪvɪˈneɪʃn]

美 [ˌdɪvɪˈneɪʃn]

n.  占卜; 预测; 预言

复数：divinations　

BNC.34177 / COCA.18486

牛津词典

noun

• 占卜；预测；预言
  the act of finding out and saying what will happen in the future

柯林斯词典

• 占卜（术）;预测;预言
  Divinationis the art or practice of discovering what will happen in the future using supernatural means.

英英释义

noun

• the art or gift of prophecy (or the pretense of prophecy) by supernatural means
  Synonym:foretellingsoothsayingfortune telling
• a prediction uttered under divine inspiration
  Synonym:prophecy
• successful conjecture by unusual insight or good luck

双语例句

• Rinpoche told me several times that the MO ( divination) was not good.
  仁波切数度告诉我占卜的结果并不好。
• To foretell through or as if through the art of divination.
  占卜，预言通过或似通过占卜术预言。
• They prayed to Buddhist and Shinto gods ( every vesselcarried a shrine), and they prepared divination papers to find out where theywere.
  他们向佛教和神道教的神明祈祷（每艘船上都有神龛），通过写有预言的纸来了解现在的位置。
• You are to come to wife divination, right?
  你是来给老婆卜卦，对吗？
• But geomancy means divination according to geographic features, so the translation is not entirely correct.
  但是土占意指根据地理特征来占卜，所以这个翻译并非完全正确。
• You should have known that such a man as I could discover by divination what happened.
  难道你们不知道像我这样的人会占卜吗？
• Superficially, the Book of Changes is indeed about divination.
  从表面上看《周易》的确是一部占卜吉凶的书。
• These characters were mostly prayers by Shang rulers at divination and sacrificial rites, as well as simple records.
  这些文字，大都是商代统治者占卜祭祀时的祝辞和简单记事。
• The Xuan Tong Da Shu is one of the most important works of divination in Bimo Culture.
  《玄通大书》是毕摩文化中最重要的占卜经典。
• Purple Star astrology is a traditional Taoist Chinese divination system.
  紫薇斗数是中国道家传统的算命方法。