(adj.) foretelling events as if by supernatural intervention; 'prophetic writings'; 'prophetic powers'; 'words that proved prophetic' .
艾布拉姆编辑
双语例句
But after the building of the temple and the organization of the priesthood, the prophetic type remains over and outside the formal religious scheme. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯.世界史纲.
As for sitting still, and learning from the past, or shaping out the future by faithful work done in a prophetic spirit--Why! 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔.南方与北方.
From being a temple religion of the old type, the Jewish religion becomes, to a large extent, a prophetic and creative religion of a new type. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯.世界史纲.
Let us ape Roger Bacon in his prophetic mood, and set down what we believe will be the broad fundamentals of the coming world state. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯.世界史纲.
No soul was prophetic enough to have any foreboding as to what might appear on the trial of Joshua Rigg. 乔治·艾略特.米德尔马契.
If Bulstrode should turn out to be a rascal, Frank Hawley had a prophetic soul. 乔治·艾略特.米德尔马契.
Many added that he looked sublime and prophetic. 查尔斯·狄更斯.双城记.
The prophetic books of the Bible can be but specimens of the prophesyings of that time. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯.世界史纲.
They are, therefore, retrospective and resultant, instead of being prospective or prophetic. 佚名.神奇的知识之书.
But the cruelest habit the modern prophecy-savans have, is that one of coolly and arbitrarily fitting the prophetic shirt on to the wrong man. 马克·吐温.傻子出国记.
Her uncle's prophetic soul anticipated a splendid future. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特.雪莉.
It'll do that afore long, Sir,' observed the tall man, in a low, prophetic voice. 查尔斯·狄更斯.匹克威克外传.
I had quite a prophetic feeling when Captain Lennox'--and here the voice dropped into a whisper, but Margaret could easily supply the blank. 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔.南方与北方.
He may even be thought to have a prophetic anticipation of the discoveries of Quetelet and others, that numbers depend upon numbers; e. 柏拉图.理想国.
And he was not simply a prophetic theorist; he was also a propagandist of the revolt of labour, the revolt of the so-called proletariat. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯.世界史纲.
Another of Medora's fads--really this time it was almost prophetic! 伊迪丝·华顿.纯真年代.
As the period fixed for our marriage drew nearer, whether from cowardice or a prophetic feeling, I felt my heart sink within me. 玛丽·雪莱.弗兰肯斯坦.
Christianity almost from its commencement ceased to be purely prophetic and creative. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯.世界史纲.
If his prophetic soul had been urged to particularize, it seemed to him that fits would have been the definite expression alighted upon. 乔治·艾略特.米德尔马契.
There are many points in which he shows a modern feeling and a prophetic insight like Plato. 柏拉图.理想国.
For all the parade of learning and dialectic is an after-thought--an accident from the fact that the prophetic genius of Marx appeared in Germany under the incubus of Hegel. 沃尔特·李普曼.政治序论.
What is clearly apparent is that the teaching of Jesus of Nazareth was a _prophetic teaching_ of the new type that began with the Hebrew prophets. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯.世界史纲.
But his prophetic eye extends beyond them to the false teachers of other ages who are the creatures of the government under which they live. 柏拉图.理想国.
Nobody controverted the prophetic gentleman's opinion. 查尔斯·狄更斯.雾都孤儿.
It does not require a particularly acute prophetic vision to see Flower Towns of Poured Houses going up in whole suburbs outside all our chief centres of population. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔.爱迪生的生平和发明.