to prophesy

基本解释

Then came Jeremiah from Tophet, whither the LORD had sent him to prophesy; and he stood in the court of the LORD's house; and said to all the people
耶利米從陀斐特就是耶和華差他去說預言的地方廻來，站在耶和華殿的院中，對衆人說
He's almost a mythological figure who can sanction, who can authorize this revolution in women's writing that Virginia Woolf is beginning to prophesy here early in the twentieth century.
他是神話般的人物，可以批準，可以授權這場女性文學的革命，這場革命彿吉尼亞·伍爾夫,在20世紀早期就預言到了。
The result of all this is that climate scientists have, en masse, become Cassandras — gifted with the ability to prophesy future disasters, but cursed with the inability to get anyone to believe them.
這些變化的結果是，氣候科學家一起變成了卡珊多薩---被賦予了預言未來災難的能力，但是因爲不能讓人們相信他的預言而遭到詛咒。

He's almost a mythological figure who can sanction, who can authorize this revolution in women's writing that Virginia Woolf is beginning to prophesy here early in the twentieth century.
他是神話般的人物，可以批準，可以授權這場女性文學的革命，這場革命彿吉尼亞·伍爾夫,在20世紀早期就預言到了。
耶魯公開課 - 彌爾頓課程節選
Milton's alluding to what he took to be the divinely inspired prophesy of Saint John the Divine that ends the New Testament.
彌爾頓的暗示是從,聖約翰的佈道中啓發的,他是那位完結了《新約》的神學家。
耶魯公開課 - 彌爾頓課程節選

In order to claim powers of uncanny prophesy, for at least a while, I think I owe it to the law of averages to predict it here in black and white, so that I can get levelled.
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