seers

英 [ˈsiːəz]

美 [sirz]

n.  (尤指旧时)预言家，先知
seer的复数

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

双语例句

• In ancient times this kind of poetry and counseling was well known in the form of prophecies and visions from seers or shamans.
  在古代，这种诗文和箴言以先知或萨满的预言和显灵的形式而众所周知。
• Only with this difference, that, whereas the Jewish seers had denounced judgments and ruin on their country, it was his mission to foretell a high and glorious destiny for the newly gathered people of the lord.
  唯一不同的是，犹太人预言家当年宣告的是他们国内的天罚和灭亡，而他的使命则是预示新近在这里集结起来的上帝的臣民们的崇高而光荣的命运。
• Who say to the seers, see not; and to the prophets, do not give us word of what is true, but say false things to give us pleasure.
  他们对先见说，不要望见不吉利的事，对先知说，不要向我们讲正直的话，要向我们说柔和的话，言虚幻的事。
• And Gaal said again, see! People are coming down from the middle of the land, and one band is coming by way of the oak-tree of the seers.
  迦勒又说，看哪，有人从高处下来，又有一队从米恶尼尼橡树的路上而来。
• The lord, who has taken up your cause, the holy one of israel, says, because of you I have sent to babylon, and made all their seers come south, and the Chaldaeans whose cry is in the ships.
  耶和华你们的救赎主，以色列的圣者如此说，因你们的缘故，我已经打发人到巴比伦去，并且我要使迦勒底人如逃民，都坐自己喜乐的船下来。
• The seers are blind. Economists have failed to call a single recession in the past four decades.
  预言者是盲目的40年来，经济学家未能准确预测过一次经济衰退。
• By some measures, households are reducing their debt burdens unusually fast, but even optimistic seers do not think the process is much more than half over.
  从某些方面来说，家庭是异乎寻常地减少他们的债务负担，但即使是乐观的预言家的快速不认为过程是远远超过一半。
• The men of vision are the seers and prophets;
  那些具有想象力的人是预言者和先知。
• Perhaps we all know already, but it is still incredible to discover coincidences in the prophecies of other seers.
  也许我们已经清楚知道了，但是看到别位先知不谋而合的发现，我们仍然感到不可思议。
• It covers some applications of animal-behavior knowledge to neuropsychology and behavioral pharmacology. There, seers learned the power of altered mind states through dance, music and simple drugs.
  它涵盖对神经心理学与行为药物学的动物行为知识的一些应用。这些先知们用舞蹈、乐和简单的药物寻找改变意识的力量。