fortune-teller

From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary EnglishRelated topics: Occultfortune-tellerˈfortune-ˌteller noun [countable] ROsomeone who uses cards or looks at people’s hands in order to tell them what is supposed to happen to them in the future —fortune telling noun [uncountable]Examples from the Corpusfortune-teller• I knew that as a fortune-teller and spirit medium, she was paid to console or cajole the dead.• Mrs Bay and the fortune-teller laughed and rolled their eyes with unfastened abandon.• The gypsies themselves were more colorful than the trees in autumn, but the fortune-teller was different.• What if the fortune-teller was destroying her hope and joy with that strange, harsh voice.• I thought of all the times the fortune-teller who had come to North Crittendon had told me the same thing.• The fortune-teller will probably agree with the problems, and then tell you how irrelevant they are.• The fortune-teller would hardly relay bad tidings, for who would be generous, learning of coming sorrows?

单词	fortune-teller
释义	fortune-teller From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary EnglishRelated topics: Occultfortune-tellerˈfortune-ˌteller noun [countable] ROsomeone who uses cards or looks at people’s hands in order to tell them what is supposed to happen to them in the future —fortune telling noun [uncountable]Examples from the Corpusfortune-teller• I knew that as a fortune-teller and spirit medium, she was paid to console or cajole the dead.• Mrs Bay and the fortune-teller laughed and rolled their eyes with unfastened abandon.• The gypsies themselves were more colorful than the trees in autumn, but the fortune-teller was different.• What if the fortune-teller was destroying her hope and joy with that strange, harsh voice.• I thought of all the times the fortune-teller who had come to North Crittendon had told me the same thing.• The fortune-teller will probably agree with the problems, and then tell you how irrelevant they are.• The fortune-teller would hardly relay bad tidings, for who would be generous, learning of coming sorrows?
随便看	out of shape out of sight out of sight out of sight, out of mind out of somebody’s way out of sorts out of spite out of state out of step out of stock stock out of stock/in stock out of style out of sync out of sync (with something/somebody) out of sync with out of the Ark out of the blue out of the door out of the frying pan and into the fire out of the goodness of heart out of the goodness of somebody’s heart out of the limelight out of the money option out of the mouths of babes out of the mouths of babes (and sucklings)