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
- a prediction uttered under divine inspiration
- successful conjecture by unusual insight or good luck
双语例句
- 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。 - It is practicing two things that are forbidden and condemned: divination and necromancy.
这是在实习被禁止和谴责的两件事：占卜和招魂。 - 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 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？ - For rebellion is no less a sin than divination, and stubbornness is like iniquity and idolatry.
顽梗的罪与拜虚神和偶像的罪相同。 - In divination, the judgement of two men out of the three engaged in it should be followed.
任用这些人从事卜筮时，三个人的占卜，应当信从其中两个人的判断。 - 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。 - 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。 - For there shall be no more any vain vision nor flattering divination within the house of Israel.
从此，在以色列家中必不再有虚假的异象和奉承的占卜。 - Isn't this the cup my master drinks from and also uses for divination?
这不是我主人饮酒的杯吗？岂不是他占卜用的吗？