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proph.etfemale also proph.et.ess H5prBf7It, $5prB:7fIt, H.prBf7I5tes, $.prB:7fI5tesn [C]A prophet is a person who is believed to have a special power which allows them to say what a god wishes to tell people, esp. about things that will happen in the future.预言者，先知an Old Testament prophet一个旧约中的先知Let us hear the words of the prophet Isaiah on the coming of the Prince of Peace.让我们聆听先知以赛亚关于和平之王的来临的预言。A prophet can also be a person who supports a new system of beliefs and principles.（主义等的）宣扬者，倡导者Rousseau, that great prophet of the modern age卢梭，现代的伟大倡导者The Prophet is Mohammed, the man who made Islam known to the world through the Koran.(伊斯兰教祖)穆罕默德(disapproving) A prophet of doom is a person who emphasizes the bad side of a situation and continually states that something bad is going to happen.悲观的预言者The prophets of doom have been predicting the end of the European cinema for the last ten years.那些悲观的预言者在过去10 年里一直在预言欧洲电影的结束。
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