It's a set of images that couldn't be more foreign or more alien to the prophetic mode of the old testament prophets.

这是一组不能再背离旧约先知的形象的一组比喻了。

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In late 1978, when I was first elected governor, Hilary Jones had made a prophetic comment to me.

1978年末，我刚当选州长的时候，希勒里·琼斯曾经给我做了一个预言。

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It was a prophetic prediction.

这是一个先知性的预言。

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It's a set of images that couldn't be more foreign or more alien to the prophetic mode of the Old Testament prophets.

这是一组不能再背离旧约先知的形象的,一组比喻了。

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Milton had begun the sentence not with calm, prophetic certainty about his divine vocation. He began it with a far more secular set of images, a set of images that comes from the world of business.

弥尔顿并不是以一种先知对他天职，的冷静确信开始写的，他以,更世俗的比喻开始,生意上的比喻。

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Yeah, particularly when it takes prophetic form, that is a form that stands in condemnation of those things in sort of order, in the rums of power, that enslave people, that oppress people that mistreat people.

是的，尤其是以先知预言形式出现的时候，谴责那些,在命令和权力下，奴役人们，压迫人们,虐待人们的现象。

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It also proved to be prophetic because a few years later, shortly before my father died, for the first time in my life, I got friendly with him, just as Cal gets friendly with his father.

NEWYORKER: Method Man

It means taking every aspect of the Prophetic conduct as a lesson to be reflected upon and followed.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Muslim-on-Muslim Violence

As the accidental titan of American destiny, Walter Huston dominates the film with a sly yet grand manner and a prophetic diction.

NEWYORKER: Abraham Lincoln