| 单词 | divine |
| 释义 | divine (dɪvaɪn ) Word forms: divines , divining , divined 1. adjective [usually ADJECTIVE noun] You use divine to describe something that is provided by or relates to a god or goddess. He suggested that the civil war had been a divine punishment. ...divine inspiration. divinely adverb [usually ADVERB -ed] The law was divinely ordained. 2. countable noun A divine is a priest who specializes in the study of God and religion. [old-fashioned] Synonyms: priest, minister, vicar, reverend 3. graded adjective People use divine to express their pleasure or enjoyment of something. [old-fashioned, feelings] 'Isn't it divine?' she said. 'I wish I had the right sort of brooch to lend you for it.'. Darling how lovely to see you, you look simply divine. divinely graded adverb [usually ADVERB adjective] It smells divinely of orange zest. 4. verb If you divine something, you discover or learn it by guessing. [literary] ...the child's ability to divine the needs of its parents and respond to them. [VERB noun] From this he divined that she did not like him much. [VERB that] 5. verb If you divine, you try to find underground supplies of water or minerals, using a special rod or pair of rods. The only reason I was divining for water was because of the drought. [VERB for noun] ...a divining rod. [VERB-ing] Synonyms: dowsefor water or minerals, find through dowsing Collocations: divine gift Is there a higher calling in this life than the divine gift of inspiring laughter? Times, Sunday Times Their divine gift lets them see the past as well as the future. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 There was no 'holding off' on such divine gifts. Times, Sunday Times Are the message and charisma divine gifts? Times, Sunday Times The divine gifts of the scions make them able leaders. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Certainty of divine grace was a powerful thing. Times, Sunday Times No divine grace can save a person from experiencing them. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Marabouts were believed to have barakah, or divine grace, as reflected in their ability to perform miracles. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Not even divine grace, will give us such power. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Together with every other thing these pious divine images were also lost from the memories of people. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 During his reign, tens of thousands of temples were desecrated: their facades and interiors were defaced and their murtis (divine images) looted. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Divine images were common on coins. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 She held mystical ceremonies at the restaurants she owned to seek divine inspiration for her investment decisions. Times, Sunday Times There's a lot of groundwork to be done - and then you hope for divine inspiration. Times, Sunday Times According to legend, he lifted a large stone into place, 'proving' divine inspiration, and gained sponsors who funded its construction. Times, Sunday Times Patterns in clouds have also provided divine inspiration. Times,Sunday Times It took a moment for divine inspiration to strike. Times, Sunday Times Sounds like a bit of divine intervention to me. The Sun (2014) But this lifting did not feel like divine intervention, let alone a result of effort, but more like a natural process of revisiting and healing and recovering. Times, Sunday Times (2016) He really did need some divine intervention. Times, Sunday Times (2016) Australia, at the mercy of the worst drought in a century, is praying for divine intervention. Times, Sunday Times (2007) One prayer group offered its services to a force that requested divine intervention in capturing a persistent thief. Times, Sunday Times (2006) He went on to enjoy some divine justice, though, selling tens of millions of his books. Times, Sunday Times According to this view, sin incurs a debt to divine justice, a debt that must be paid somehow. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 All three contain bold arraignments of divine justice and providence. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 They mete out divine justice and maintain the cosmic harmony of all universal laws. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 In whatever sense he should submit to the divine justice punishing other sinners, in that sense he should submit to the divine justice punishing himself. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Other poems pit savvy human wisdom against arcane divine knowledge, and recount grand adventures and comic escapades. The Times Literary Supplement It drew on divine knowledge and precepts, and applied these laws in order to direct the individual toward right action and warn against wrong action. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The people of analogy (fatawa issuers) sought knowledge through analogy and as a consequence they kept going away from the divine knowledge. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 It contains the might of all their magic and wisdom, the sum of their divine knowledge. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Only by taming and controlling the two horses can the charioteer ascend to the heavens and enjoy a banquet of divine knowledge. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 They are not a divine law, not eternal truths. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Only divine law and merely civil effects of marriage are not considered valid actions by a tribunal. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Furthermore, he went on to assert that a presbyterian hierarchy of presbyteries and synods was required by divine law. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The first two questions are treated briskly and concern whether a people are bound to obey and/or are able to resist their king when he breaks the divine law. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The shadows are solid; a thin film of gilt captures divine light. Times,Sunday Times The world shines with the divine light. The Times Literary Supplement Through meditation and mercy of the guru, these can be removed so the soul can see the divine light and hear spiritual sounds. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Divine light flashed all round me, unspeakable joy sprung up in my soul. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 He showers his divine light to all, irrespective of what they do. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 But for a quarter of a century there has been a divine order of things. Times, Sunday Times She believed the universe was the creation of justice and love, and the stories she wrote redress instances of injustice and hate, which disrupt the divine order. Times, Sunday Times The grim lives some people lead are not a divine order or a special tradition. Times, Sunday Times The sudden and unexpected deliverance from usurpation and tyranny was interpreted as a restoration of the natural and divine order. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Royal powers are limited by the principles of the divine order and by the social sovereignty of the components, forming the nation. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The explanation of the creation, life and the universe retains the raw power of the ram in action, but also expresses subtleties concerning divine power. The Times Literary Supplement But 400 yards from the bridge a voice that could only have come from some divine power urged me to make one last phone call to a dear friend. Times, Sunday Times She appears with several epithets that focus on aspects of her divine power. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 His arms are tense, forcefully gripping it to dictate his divine power. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The written word on the tomb, he asserts, perpetuated the divine power of kings. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 They have been touched by the divine presence. Times, Sunday Times We encounter the divine presence in prayer and ritual, story and song. Times, Sunday Times He has the divine presence in his front room. Christianity Today The images, though, seem to allude constantly to a divine presence. The Times Literary Supplement Superstition dictates that sailors must leave a mural to gain divine protection. Times, Sunday Times It must have been divine protection. Times, Sunday Times Is there no divine protection from spam? Times, Sunday Times The story rapidly became the stuff of legend - with royalist propagandists claiming that the king's escape showed that their cause was under divine protection. Times, Sunday Times They believed it afforded them and their people divine protection. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 But then the baddies - presumably as some sort of divine punishment - turn into gold themselves. Times, Sunday Times For some contemporaries, the lingering sickness that left him virtually bedridden for the last five years of his life was divine punishment for his 'pride and presumption'. The Times Literary Supplement Writers at the time assumed that this pagan invasion was the monks' divine punishment for (among other things) having allowed their hair and beards to grow too long. Times, Sunday Times In this view, people needed salvation from the divine punishment that these offences would bring, since nothing they could do could repay the honour debt. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Divine punishment was rehabilitative, not penal, and designed to reform the person. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 I don't remember a time when the realm of popular culture has seemed more alive with divine purpose. Christianity Today It saw the divine purpose of redemption not in individual terms only but also in corporate, social and political terms. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Without history, there can be no teleology (showing a divine purpose playing itself out in the world). Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Some describe expressions of hopes, revelations of divine purposes, and prophecies of the future. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 This isn't divine retribution, it's an industrial accident on a major scale. T2®: THE FUTURE WAR (2003) I'm talking spite and curiosity and divine retribution here, not mineralogy. FALLEN WOMEN (2002) A veiled woman whose brother had been badly injured wailed for divine retribution. Times, Sunday Times (2007) Could this be divine retribution? The Sun (2015) On this occasion, however, the divine spark was missing. Times, Sunday Times What was missing, perhaps, was the divine spark that converts a genuinely pleasing performance into a memorable one. Times, Sunday Times But you need something else to make a book spring into life - a divine spark of real creativity. Times, Sunday Times They believed that since all people embodied the same divine spark, all people deserved equal treatment. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Once broken, the vessel's shards, full of absorbed divine sparks, fell into a vessel below. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Presumably, humans can redeem themselves through cultivation and regain their divine status. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The title may have represented the divine status of the king. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 News media were nonplussed by his youth and supposed divine status. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 They took on divine status, and new nobility and artisan classes were created. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Once appointed, office holders went through elaborate rituals to both familiarize themselves with their new duties and elevate them to a divine status. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 He dismisses all personal rivals or critics as enemies of that divine will, beyond any hope of salvation. Christianity Today He thereby recasts providence as immanent, rather than as the expression of a divine will that stands outside both human nature and the natural order. The Times Literary Supplement Darkness was a signifier, bringing forth the light that was the instrument of divine will. Times, Sunday Times But was it a sign of divine wrath? Times, Sunday Times But he also peppered his text with prophetic declarations of divine wrath directed at the country that deprived him of his freedom. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The album's title track, after all, gives us the image of an event often considered emblematic of both human hubris and divine wrath. Christianity Today Translations: Chinese: 神的 Japanese: 神の |
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