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

• SEER enables users to measure actual project performance and progress against expected outcomes ( schedule, resources, and defects).
  SEER使得用户能够度量实际的项目性能和过程预期结果（进度、资源和缺陷）。
• Recent years, the seasonal energy efficiency ( SEER) and integrated part-load value ( IPLV) are the evaluating methods for refrigeration and heat pump equipment.
  季节能效比（SEER）和综合部分负荷值（IPLV）是近年来出现的制冷和热泵装置能源效率评价指标。
• Seer, one who possesses the Inner Eye, does not seem to have control over their Seeing.
  一个拥有天眼的预言者，好象并不能控制他们的预言能力。
• I passed a seer along the road this morning.
  我今天在路上碰见了一个预言家。
• Ignatius sees himself as a seer and philosopher.
  伊格内修斯自视为先知和哲学家。
• 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。
• It must be seen by somebody outside it, but how can such a seer be subject to it?
  幻象必须在其外才能被看见，但是这样的一个人怎么会被幻象所左右？
• Who claims to be a seer?
  谁声称要当预言家？
• He doesn't claim to be any famous John, he just claims to be John, and so we call him often John the Seer or John the prophet or something like that.
  《启示录》作者并没有自称是那个著名的约翰，他只是自称约翰，我们经常称他为预言者约翰，或先知约翰之类的。