divine
英 [d?'va?n]
美[d?'va?n]
- adj. 神圣的；非凡的；天赐的；极好的
- vt. 占卜；预言；用占卜勘探
- vi. 占卜；预言；使用占卜勘探矿
- n. 牧师；神学家
- n. (Divine)人名；(英)迪万
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副词:?divinely;
中文词源
divine 神的，预测
来自PIE*dyeu, 照耀，神，词源同diva, divine,Zeus.即神灵的，能预测未来的。
英文词源
- divine
- divine: [14] Like deity, divine comes ultimately from Indo-European *deiwos, an ancestor whose godly connotations seem to have developed from earlier associations with ‘sky’ and ‘day’, and which probably originally meant ‘shining’. Its Latin descendants included deus ‘god’ (source of English deity) and the adjective dīvus ‘godlike’ (the noun use of its feminine form, dīva, for ‘goddess’ entered English via Italian as diva ‘prima donna’ [19]).
From dīvus was derived the further adjective dīvīnus, which became Old French devin and eventually English divine. Dīvīnus was used as a noun meaning, in classical times, ‘soothsayer’ (whence, via the Latin derivative dīvīnāre, the English verb divine) and in the Middle Ages ‘theologian’ (whence the nominal use of English divine in the same sense).
=> deity - divine (adj.)
- c. 1300, from Old French devin (12c.), from Latin divinus "of a god," from divus "a god," related to deus "god, deity" (see Zeus). Weakened sense of "excellent" had evolved by late 15c.
- divine (v.)
- "to conjure, to guess," originally "to make out by supernatural insight," mid-14c., from Old French deviner, from Vulgar Latin *devinare, dissimilated from *divinare, from Latin divinus (see divine (adj.)), which also meant "soothsayer." Related: Divined; diviner; divining. Divining rod (or wand) attested from 1650s.
- divine (n.)
- c. 1300, "soothsayer," from Old French devin, from Latin divinus (adj.); see divine (adj.). Meaning "ecclesiastic, theologian" is from late 14c.
双语例句
- 1. A degree does not give you a divine right to wealth.
- 拥有学位并不能保证你就能获得财富。
来自柯林斯例句
- 2. Darling how lovely to see you, you look simply divine.
- 亲爱的，见到你太让人高兴了，你看上去简直美极了。
来自柯林斯例句
- 3. The whole system was based on divine revelation in the Scriptures.
- 整个体系都建立在《圣经》的神圣启示的基础之上。
来自柯林斯例句
- 4. "This food is divine," they murmur, falsely.
- “这东西好吃极了，”他们言不由衷地低声说。
来自柯林斯例句
- 5. "They were divine," she sighs, dreamily.
- “他们是神圣的，”她神情恍惚地叹了口气。
来自柯林斯例句