| 单词 | the sticks of fate |
| 释义 | > as lemmasthe sticks of fate P8. the sticks of fate: a set of marked sticks used in various Chinese methods of divination; one of these methods of divination. Cf. I Ching n. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > expectation > foresight, foreknowledge > prediction, foretelling > divination by symbols, letters, figures, etc. > [noun] > Chinese manual for > apparatus used in the sticks of fate1804 1804 J. Barrow Trav. China ix. 499 An elderly lady was very busily employed in throwing the sticks of fate, in order to obtain a lucky number. 1860 R. Cobbold Pict. Chinese ii. 14 You seldom enter a Buddhist temple without seeing some anxious face watching till one of the ‘sticks of fate’ falls out of the shaken box. 1880 Boys of Eng. 20 Jan. 195/3 Others were busy in throwing ‘sticks of fate’, which consist of two hollow pieces of bamboo, and must be thrown three times (the true mystic number), before an answer can be obtained. 1903 A. B. Tulloch Recoll. Forty Years' Service v. 72 There are vases on the Buddhist altar which do not yet appear even in our most advanced ritualistic buildings—viz., those containing the sticks of fate. 1983 Burlington Mag. 125 256/2 (caption) Devotee consulting the Sticks of Fate. 2001 S. Karcher Kuan Yin Oracle (2003) 67 The Sticks of Fate is the traditional way. This method involves a tall narrow cup..filled with a hundred thin bamboo slats. < as lemmas |
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