divined

英 [dɪˈvaɪnd]

美 [dɪˈvaɪnd]

v.  猜到; 领悟; (用丫形杖)探测(地下水)
divine的过去分词和过去式

柯林斯词典

• ADJ 天赐的;神的;神圣的
  You usedivineto describe something that is provided by or relates to a god or goddess.
  1. He suggested that the civil war had been a divine punishment.
     他暗示说内战是上天的惩罚。
  2. ...divine inspiration.
     天赐的灵感
• 专门研究神学的牧师
  Adivineis a priest who specializes in the study of God and religion.
• ADJ-GRADED 绝妙的;非凡的;极棒的
  People usedivineto express their pleasure or enjoyment of something.
  1. 'Isn't it divine?' she said. 'I wish I had the right sort of brooch to lend you for it.'...
     “它是不是美极了？”她说道，“真希望我有合适的胸针可以借给你来搭配它。”
  2. Darling how lovely to see you, you look simply divine.
     亲爱的，见到你太让人高兴了，你看上去简直美极了。
• VERB 猜测;揣度
  If youdivinesomething, you discover or learn it by guessing.
  1. ...the child's ability to divine the needs of its parents and respond to them...
     孩子猜测父母的需要并作出回应的能力
  2. From this he divined that she did not like him much.
     他依此猜到她不太喜欢他。
• VERB (用探测棒)探测（地下水或矿藏）
  If youdivine, you try to find underground supplies of water or minerals, using a special rod or pair of rods.
  1. The only reason I was divining for water was because of the drought.
     我之所以探寻水源是因为发生了旱灾。
  2. ...a divining rod.
     探测杆

双语例句

• Flip the seats back up, load up four adults, and despite its diminutive size, the car still doesn't feel small, as if Honda somehow divined the perfect threshold of proportions.
  将后座的靠背立起来后车内可以容纳4名成年人，尽管车身很小但并不会使人感到拥挤，好像本田神奇地找到了最佳的车内空间比例布局。
• Our hurry prevented any comment on the encounter with Heathcliff, as we stretched towards home; but I divined instinctively that Catherine's heart was clouded now in double darkness.
  在我们往家跑时，急急匆匆地，也顾不上谈论刚才遇见希刺克厉夫的事。可是我本能地看透了凯瑟琳的心如今已布满了双重的暗云。
• In short, I am enamored of that flawless beauty of which all poets have perturbedly divined the existence somewhere, and which life as men know it simply does not afford nor anywhere foresee.
  简而言之，我所迷恋的是无暇的、诗人悸动地在某个“存在”中察觉到的、凡俗生命无法提供也无法预见的那种美。
• Admitting that the gigantic and gloomy insurrection of June was composed of a wrath and of an enigma, one divined in the first barricade the dragon, and behind the second the sphinx.
  如把这次巨大而阴惨的六月起义作为愤怒和谜的结合，我们感到第一个街垒里有条龙，而第二个背后是斯芬克司。
• He had not divined that what had fallen from heaven had come from Gavroche.
  他更不会想到从天上掉下来的东西来自伽弗洛什。
• He had been an officer in the navy, and, from his gestures and his voice, one divined that he sprang from the ocean, and that he came from the tempest; he carried the hurricane on into battle.
  他曾任海军军官，根据他的声音和举动，可以猜出他是来自海洋和风暴；在战斗中他坚持飓风式的战斗作风。
• The landscape seemed to grow larger and more detailed as he squinted over the side of the dragon, and he wondered whether it had divined the presence of fresh water by the flashes of reflected sunlight.
  他眯眼顺着巨龙的侧面向下看去，地面的景物似乎在变大，并且显出了更多的细节。他怀疑巨龙是由于太阳的反光而感到了湖水的存在。
• From this he divined that she did not like him much.
  他依此猜到她不太喜欢他。
• I divined from this account, that utter lack of sympathy had rendered young Heathcliff selfish and disagreeable.
  从这一段叙述，我推想小希刺克厉夫已经完全没人同情，变得自私而讨人嫌了。
• This is the land that gave us the wheel, writing and mathematics, where the people first divided time into units of60 and where they first divined the God of the Old Testament.
  这就是那片给我们带来轮子、文字和数学的土地，那片人们最早把时间分成个单位的地方，也是人们最早预言《旧约》中上帝的地方。