Oracle

(noun.) a shrine where an oracular god is consulted.

(noun.) a prophecy (usually obscure or allegorical) revealed by a priest or priestess; believed to be infallible.

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• By all which acquirements, I should be a living treasure of knowledge and wisdom, and certainly become the oracle of the nation. 乔纳森·斯威夫特. 格列佛游记.
• Fanny was her oracle. 简·奥斯汀. 曼斯菲尔德庄园.
• Verily, Socrates, said Glaucon, you describe the life of the many like an oracle. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• She looks up to him as an oracle now, and by-and-by she will be at the other extreme. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• He called it his oracle, and said, it pointed out the time for every action of his life. 乔纳森·斯威夫特. 格列佛游记.
• O for some Delphic oracle, or Pythian maid, to utter the secrets of futurity! 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• There was no oracle at Delphi now to tell him that he was destined to destroy a great empire. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• One came, but that one was an oracle. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• We can tolerate the Oracle very easily, but we have a poet and a good-natured enterprising idiot on board, and they do distress the company. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• Delphi was particularly famous for its oracle. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• How shall we interpret the oracle, you and I and the old intriguer? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• About each birthday the spirit moves me to deliver one oracle respecting my own instruction and management. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• He travelled four hundred miles to the remote oasis of the oracle of Ammon. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Well, them fellows have all tackled the old Oracle, as they say, but the old man's most too many for 'em. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• And presently the Oracle stepped out with his eternal spy-glass and squared himself on the deck like another Colossus of Rhodes. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• An ancient land in ancient oracles Is called law-thirsty: all the struggle there Was after order and a perfect rule. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• The heathen mythology, the Sybilline oracles, the myths of Plato, the dreams of Neo-Platonists are equally regarded by him as matter of fact. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• The prophets danced, it would seem, somewhat after the Dervish fashion, and uttered oracles. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• All oracles were at the tombs of Heroes. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• All she questioned responded by oracles. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• But Greece, like most of the Eastern world in the thousand years B.C., was much addicted to consulting _oracles_ or soothsayers. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• He then made trial of the various oracles. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• If they are true oracles, it is good never to fall in love. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• Her words were oracles to him, her smallest actions marked by an infallible grace and wisdom. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.

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