prophetic
prophetic 英 [prəˈfetɪk] 美 [prəˈfɛtɪk]
adj. 预言的，预示的；先知的
- If you make a prediction and it comes true, your words were prophetic. Like the time you warned your dad against eating a whole box of donuts. He got sick, right? That was a prophetic warning.
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- adj. 预言的，预示的；先知的
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1. So they were practicing a certain kind of early asceticism and monasticism but with this very strong prophetic stream of it also.
所以他们遵行的,是早期的禁欲主义和修道主义,但同时又有很浓重的先知性质。
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2. He's grabbed hold of a certain prophetic tradition that we know is already there in the Bible, which criticized the Jerusalem temple.
他抓住了一个我们已经知道存在于圣经之中的,特定先知的观点，批评耶路撒冷的圣殿。
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3. He's actually claiming that this poem had been prophetic, that Lycidas foretold the ruin of the clergy.
他实际上是在声称这首诗是先知的，它已然预示了教会崩溃的必然。
- prophetic (adj.) late 15c., from Middle French prophétique (15c.) and directly from Late Latin propheticus, from Greek prophetikos "pertaining to a prophet, oracular," from prophetes (see prophet). Related: Prophetical (mid-15c.); prophetically.
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