divination
英 [ˌdɪvɪˈneɪʃn]
美 [ˌdɪvɪˈneɪʃn]
n. 占卜; 预测; 预言
复数：divinations
BNC.34177 / COCA.18486
牛津词典
noun
- 占卜；预测；预言
the act of finding out and saying what will happen in the future
柯林斯词典
- 占卜（术）;预测;预言
Divinationis the art or practice of discovering what will happen in the future using supernatural means.
英英释义
noun
- the art or gift of prophecy (or the pretense of prophecy) by supernatural means
- a prediction uttered under divine inspiration
- successful conjecture by unusual insight or good luck
双语例句
- Divination based on facial features.
占相术以面部特征为基础的占卜。 - Han Jia, to my knowledge, the Book of Changes is about divination.
韩佳，据我所知啊，这《周易》它只是一部算卦的书。 - Purple Star astrology is a traditional Taoist Chinese divination system.
紫薇斗数是中国道家传统的算命方法。 - You should have known that such a man as I could discover by divination what happened.
难道你们不知道像我这样的人会占卜吗？ - At that time, only a few officials or divination people.
当时，只有少数官吏或卜人使用。 - Will time turners or divination come into play in some way again?
也许时间转换器和占卜术又以某种方式发生了作用？ - The Xuan Tong Da Shu is one of the most important works of divination in Bimo Culture.
《玄通大书》是毕摩文化中最重要的占卜经典。 - Isn't this the cup my master drinks from and also uses for divination?
这不是我主人饮酒的杯吗？岂不是他占卜用的吗？ - They prayed to Buddhist and Shinto gods ( every vesselcarried a shrine), and they prepared divination papers to find out where theywere.
他们向佛教和神道教的神明祈祷（每艘船上都有神龛），通过写有预言的纸来了解现在的位置。 - This text was used to record the results of divination, which is recorded the event symbols.
文字当时是用来记录占卜结果的，也记录事件的符号。