英语词汇“oracle bone”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

oracle bone n. Archaeology (chiefly in plural) the bone of a ritually killed animal, carved with script and used in ancient China for divination.

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the mind > mental capacity > expectation > foresight, foreknowledge > prediction, foretelling > divination by natural phenomena > divination from bones > [noun] > bones used in ancient China

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1915 Encycl. Relig. & Ethics VIII. 262/1 During recent years a very interesting discovery of ‘oracle bones’ and tortoise-shell fragments was made in the province of Honan.

1970 W. Bray & D. Trump Dict. Archaeol. 167/2 Oracle bones... A groove was cut in the bone, after which a hot point was applied nearby, and the shape of the resulting cracks determined the answer.

1990 R. O. Butler Relic in S. Ravenal New Stories from South (1991) 79 A part of an oracle bone from the earliest times of my country, the bone of some animal killed by ritual and carved with the future in Chinese characters.

单词	oracle bone
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