oracles

英 [ˈɒrəklz]

美 [ˈɔrəkəlz]

n.  (古希腊的)神示所; (传达神谕的)牧师，女祭司; (古希腊常有隐含意义的)神谕，神示; 能提供宝贵信息的人(或书); 权威; 智囊
oracle的复数

柯林斯词典

• （古希腊的）传神谕者，神使，宣示神谕的祭司
  In ancient Greece, anoraclewas a priest or priestess who made statements about future events or about the truth.

双语例句

• A book in the Old Testament containing the oracles of the prophet jeremiah.
  旧约的一卷，包含先知耶利米的神谕。
• They are the oracles from which generalized and ultimately commonplace opinions disseminate as power/ knowledge.
  他们的话语如同神谕，使普遍的一般的观点传播开来，成为权力/知识。
• All those oracles for girls in love.
  可送给那些等待爱的姑娘。
• To live among them as oracles.
  作为先知生活在他们之中。
• For tens of thousands of years human beings relied on oracles, prophets, medicine men, and resignation to try to manage unknown risks.
  几千年来，人们依赖神谕、先知、药师和顺从去试著处理未知的危机。
• Do all oracles tell the truth?
  是否所有的神谕都揭示真理？
• Sybils and oracles are the most ancient institutions of the gentile world.
  神谕就是一脚世界的最古老的制度。
• From oracles to clerical script to cursive writing, same character in its historic evolution changed its shape in various ways, but its rudimental meaning stay relatively unchanged.
  从甲骨文到竹简隶书到怀素的狂草，相同的字在历史演变中形式发生了那么多变化，而其本质承载的含义相比之下几乎是不变的。
• Like all of us, I have watched in recent days as economists and Oracles wail a chorus of lament on every screen, in every newspaper.
  和所有人一样，最近我无论把电视调到哪个频道，翻开哪份报纸，都会看到经济学家和权威们齐声哀叹。
• Judging by the great abundance of these bones and the contents of the inscriptions, it is quite definite that oracles regulated even the minute details of the conduct of the king.
  从甲骨数量之多及所刻文字的内容可以断定，商王即使是微小细节的行为举动都要由卜辞来决定。