sibylline
英 [ˈsɪbɪlaɪn] 美 [ˈsɪbəˌlaɪn, -ˌlin]

adj.

女预言家的；来自女预言家的；神谕的；预言的

英英释义

sibylline[ 'sibilain, -li:n ]

• adj.
  • resembling or characteristic of a prophet or prophecy

    "a kind of sibylline book with ready and infallible answers to questions"

    同义词：divinatorymanticsibyllicvaticvatical

  • having a secret or hidden meaning

    "thoroughly sibylline in most of his pronouncements"

    同义词：cabalistickabbalisticqabalisticcrypticcryptical

双语例句

用作形容词(adj.)

1. In these sibylline leaves are gathered the scattered prophecies of the past upon the cases in which the axe will fall.
   它们仿佛神秘的预言花瓣，每个花瓣里包裹着基于过去案件的种种预测。

权威例句

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The Sibylline Oracles of Egyptian Judaism by John J. Collins
Book III of the Sibylline oracles and its social setting
Reading "Sibylline Leaves": J. G. Hamann in the History of Ideas
Sibyls and Sibylline Prophecy in Classical Antiquity by H. W. Parke; B. C. McGing
Jane Seager's Sibylline Poems: Maidenly Negotiations Through Elizabethan Gift Exchange[with text]
Jews in the Hellenistic world : Josephus, Aristeas, the Sibylline oracles, Eupolemus
Prophecy and History in the Crisis of the Roman Empire: A Historical Commentary on the Thirteenth Sibylline Oracle