seer

英 [sɪə(r)]

美 [sɪr]

n.  (尤指旧时)预言家，先知

复数：seers　

BNC.23438 / COCA.18420

牛津词典

noun

• （尤指旧时）预言家，先知
  (especially in the past) a person who claims that they can see what is going to happen in the future

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT 预言者;先知
  Aseeris a person who tells people what will happen in the future.
  1. ...the writings of the 16th century French seer, Nostradamus.
     16世纪法国预言家诺斯特拉达穆斯的作品
  2. ...the economic seers who regularly provide The Economist with forecasts.
     定期为《经济学家》杂志提供前瞻性预测的经济预言家

英英释义

noun

• an authoritative person who divines the future
  Synonym:prophetprophesieroraclevaticinator
• an observer who perceives visually
  1. an incurable seer of movies
• a person with unusual powers of foresight
  Synonym:visionaryillusionist

双语例句

• Who claims to be a seer?
  谁声称要当预言家？
• He stationed the Levites in the temple of the LORD with cymbals, harps and lyres in the way prescribed by David and GAD the king's seer and Nathan the prophet; this was commanded by the Lord through his prophets.
  王又派利未人在耶和华殿中敲钹、鼓瑟、弹琴、乃照大卫和他先见迦得、并先知拿单所吩咐的、就是耶和华藉先知所吩咐的。
• A seer gazes intently into a crystal ball before him.
  一位先知专注地凝视着他面前的水晶球。
• With SEER for Software you can define your project at a conceptual level using extensive and extensible project knowledge bases aggregated from thousands of completed projects.
  通过SEERforSoftware您能够在一个概念层级上使用从数千个已经完成的项目中收集到的大量的和可扩展的项目知识基础来定义您的项目。
• The seer, Calchas, after consulting an oracle, revealed the cause of the trouble.
  先知卡尔卡斯，在问讯神谕所后道出了造成这一切的原因。
• There is seeing, but no seer.
  有看，没有看的人。
• The king said also unto Zadok the priest, Art not thou a seer?
  王又对祭司撒督说，你不是先见吗。
• I passed a seer along the road this morning.
  我今天在路上碰见了一个预言家。
• "How ugly?" the Seer asked.
  “有多丑？”这位先知问他。
• No one really understands exactly how prophecy works or why, and every Seer's experience seems to be different anyway.
  没人真的明白预言到底是怎么运作的，无论如何，每个预言者的经历好像都不一样。