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prophet /'profit; 'profit/ n 1 person who teaches religion and claims that his teaching comes to him directly from God: 先知; 代神发言者： the ~ Isaiah; 先知以赛亚; Muhammad, the P~ of Islam. 回敎先知穆罕钦德。 the P~s, the prophetical books of the early ~s of socialism. 威廉毛嘎斯，社会主义早期的鼓吹者之一。 3 person who tells, or claims to tell, what will happen in the future: 预言者： I'm not a good weather- ~. 我不大会预测天气。 ~ ess /./-es; -is n woman ~. 女先知; 女提倡者; 女预言者。. of the Old Testament. 旧约圣经中的预言书。 2 pioneer of a new theory, cause, etc; advocate: 新理论、主义等的鼓吹者; 提倡者： William Morris, one |