to prophesy

基本解释

Then came Jeremiah from Tophet, whither the LORD had sent him to prophesy; and he stood in the court of the LORD's house; and said to all the people
耶利米从陀斐特就是耶和华差他去说预言的地方回来，站在耶和华殿的院中，对众人说
He's almost a mythological figure who can sanction, who can authorize this revolution in women's writing that Virginia Woolf is beginning to prophesy here early in the twentieth century.
他是神话般的人物，可以批准，可以授权这场女性文学的革命，这场革命佛吉尼亚·伍尔夫,在20世纪早期就预言到了。
The result of all this is that climate scientists have, en masse, become Cassandras — gifted with the ability to prophesy future disasters, but cursed with the inability to get anyone to believe them.
这些变化的结果是，气候科学家一起变成了卡珊多萨---被赋予了预言未来灾难的能力，但是因为不能让人们相信他的预言而遭到诅咒。

He's almost a mythological figure who can sanction, who can authorize this revolution in women's writing that Virginia Woolf is beginning to prophesy here early in the twentieth century.
他是神话般的人物，可以批准，可以授权这场女性文学的革命，这场革命佛吉尼亚·伍尔夫,在20世纪早期就预言到了。
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Milton's alluding to what he took to be the divinely inspired prophesy of Saint John the Divine that ends the New Testament.
弥尔顿的暗示是从,圣约翰的布道中启发的,他是那位完结了《新约》的神学家。
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In order to claim powers of uncanny prophesy, for at least a while, I think I owe it to the law of averages to predict it here in black and white, so that I can get levelled.
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