Prophetic

(adj.) foretelling events as if by supernatural intervention; 'prophetic writings'; 'prophetic powers'; 'words that proved prophetic' .

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• 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.

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