sibylline中文什么意思

[ si'bilain ]发音:

adj.
女巫的；预言的，神秘的。 sibylline books (古罗马)《西坡拉占语集》；〔转义〕起初不想买后来反愿出高价收买的东西。

例句与用法

In these sibylline leaves are gathered prophecies of the past upon the cases in which the axe will fall
陈译：在这些提供预言的书卷中收集了过去对于一些案件的零散预言，在这些案件中，危险会降临。

形容词

having a secret or hidden meaning; "cabalistic symbols engraved in stone"; "cryptic writings"; "thoroughly sibylline in most of his pronouncements"- John Gunther
同义词：cabalistic, kabbalistic, qabalistic, cryptic, cryptical
resembling or characteristic of a prophet or prophecy; "the high priest''s divinatory pronouncement"; "mantic powers"; "a kind of sibylline book with ready and infallible answers to questions"
同义词：divinatory, mantic, sibyllic, vatic, vatical