seer

英 [sɪə(r)]

美 [sɪr]

n.  (尤指旧时)预言家，先知

复数：seers　

BNC.23438 / COCA.18420

牛津词典

noun

• （尤指旧时）预言家，先知
  (especially in the past) a person who claims that they can see what is going to happen in the future

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

英英释义

noun

• an authoritative person who divines the future
  Synonym:prophetprophesieroraclevaticinator
• an observer who perceives visually
  1. an incurable seer of movies
• a person with unusual powers of foresight
  Synonym:visionaryillusionist

双语例句

• Why did Joseph Smith have to use a seer stone both before and after being called as a prophet?
  为什麽斯密约瑟在他被称为先知以前和以后都使用「先见宝石」？
• To say," I am a subjectivist," or "I am an objectivist," is in my opinion like saying," I am a seer," or" I am a listener," but not both.
  比方说，“我是主观主义者”或者“我是个客观主义者”在我看来就类似在说“我是一个看客，”或“我是个听众，”但是仅仅指一方面。
• There is seeing, but no seer.
  有看，没有看的人。
• Jesus anointed that Prophet and Seer.
  耶稣膏立他为先知先见。
• The king said also unto Zadok the priest, Art not thou a seer?
  王又对祭司撒督说，你不是先见吗。
• He stationed the Levites in the temple of the LORD with cymbals, harps and lyres in the way prescribed by David and GAD the king's seer and Nathan the prophet; this was commanded by the Lord through his prophets.
  王又派利未人在耶和华殿中敲钹、鼓瑟、弹琴、乃照大卫和他先见迦得、并先知拿单所吩咐的、就是耶和华藉先知所吩咐的。
• This is an enlightened without the choice, it is a seer's historical mission, this is a leader of the brave the wind and waves.
  这是一个觉悟者的无悔选择，这是一个先知者的历史使命，这是一个引领者的乘风破浪。
• Seer, one who possesses the Inner Eye, does not seem to have control over their Seeing.
  一个拥有天眼的预言者，好象并不能控制他们的预言能力。
• With SEER for Software you can define your project at a conceptual level using extensive and extensible project knowledge bases aggregated from thousands of completed projects.
  通过SEERforSoftware您能够在一个概念层级上使用从数千个已经完成的项目中收集到的大量的和可扩展的项目知识基础来定义您的项目。
• He doesn't claim to be any famous John, he just claims to be John, and so we call him often John the Seer or John the prophet or something like that.
  《启示录》作者并没有自称是那个著名的约翰，他只是自称约翰，我们经常称他为预言者约翰，或先知约翰之类的。