prophet是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 预言家； 先知； 提倡者，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Of the two, swift Ajax son of Oileus was the first to know who it was that had been speaking with them, and said to Ajax son of Telamon, 'Ajax, this is one of the gods that dwell on Olympus, who in the likeness of the prophet is bidding us fight hard by our ships.
-- Had it been some mortal man who had sent me some prophet or priest who divines from sacrifice I should have deemed him false and have given him no heed; but now I have heard the goddess and seen her face to face, therefore I will go and her saying shall not be in vain.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The disciples of the prophet had since redoubled their efforts, and resisted, by words at least, the authority of Congress.
-- Then, emphasising his words with his loud voice and frequent gestures, he related the history of the Mormons from Biblical times: how that, in Israel, a Mormon prophet of the tribe of Joseph published the annals of the new religion, and bequeathed them to his son Mormon; how, many centuries later, a translation of this precious book, which was written in Egyptian, was made by Joseph Smith, junior, a Vermont farmer, who revealed himself as a mystical prophet in 1825; and how, in short, the celestial messenger appeared to him in an illuminated forest, and gave him the annals of the Lord.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The prophet crowed, "Come!I buy a drink.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- What sort of prophet are you, do you know much about it?
-- what prophet are you?
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'What a prophet you have shown yourself, Mister Copperfield!'
-- 'Dear me, what a prophet you have provedyourself to be!Don't you remember saying to me once, thatperhaps I should be a partner in Mr. Wickfield's business, andperhaps it might be Wickfield and Heep?
-- said my aunt, smoothing her dress, 'how soon itmight come between us, or how unhappy I might make our LittleBlossom, if I meddled in anything, a prophet couldn't say.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Art thou not Tamenund the father, the judge, I had al-most said, the prophet of this people?'
-- at length the bewildered prophet exclaimed.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Tis a horrible testament mind ye, which you say and seal with your blood-stone, and the prophet Matthew tells us that on whomsoever it shall fall it will grind him to powder.
-- Yes, He prepared a gourd to shade me, and like the prophet I thanked Him and was glad.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This is Big Sam our foreman, and Elijah andApostle and Prophet from Tara.
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Some say that the place was bewitched by a High German doctor, during the early days of the settlement; others, that an old Indian chief, the prophet or wizard of his tribe, held his powwows there before the country was discovered by Master Hendrick Hudson.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- During the course of these troubles, the emperors of Blefusca did frequently expostulate by their ambassadors, accusing us of making a schism in religion, by offending against a fundamental doctrine of our great prophet Lus-trog, in the fifty-fourth chapter of the Blundecral (which is their Alcoran).
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The three gentlemen looked at each other with blank faces when these words were uttered, and Mr Chuckster, doing as he was desired, and leaping off his stool with something of the excitement of an inspired prophet whose foretellings had in the fulness of time been realised, held the door open for the entrance of the wretched captive.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Yet even then beyond the reach of any plummet 'out of the belly of hell' when the whale grounded upon the ocean's utmost bones, even then, God heard the engulphed, repenting prophet when he cried.
-- But poorly could I withstand them, much as in other moods I was almost ready to smile at the solemn whimsicalities of that outlandish prophet of the wharves.
-- Now, then, be the prophet and the fulfiller one.
-- As he stood hovering over you half suspended in air, so wildly and eagerly peering towards the horizon, you would have thought him some prophet or seer beholding the shadows of Fate, and by those wild cries announcing their coming.
-- Nor have there been wanting learned exegetists who have opined that the whale mentioned in the book of Jonah merely meant a life-preserver an inflated bag of wind which the endangered prophet swam to, and so was saved from a watery doom.
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