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

sibylline

/ˈsɪbɪlʌɪn

adjective chiefly literary

Relating to or characteristic of a sibyl; prophetic and mysterious: one glimpses them, uttering sibylline predictions of weal and woe his fascinating, if sometimes sibylline, meditations on the nation...

Mrs Atwater, in sibylline style, predicts of Philip: ‘These hands will bring you great fame.’
The girl's sibylline countenance unnerved viewers who, as one critic put it, were almost ‘repelled by the directness and force of the painting.’
It's confessional and ruminative, yet also clipped, ‘teacherly’ and sibylline.

Origin

Late 16th century: from Latin Sibillinus, from Sibylla sibyl.

单词	sibylline
释义	sibylline /ˈsɪbɪlʌɪn / adjective chiefly literary Relating to or characteristic of a sibyl; prophetic and mysterious: one glimpses them, uttering sibylline predictions of weal and woe his fascinating, if sometimes sibylline, meditations on the nation... Mrs Atwater, in sibylline style, predicts of Philip: ‘These hands will bring you great fame.’ The girl's sibylline countenance unnerved viewers who, as one critic put it, were almost ‘repelled by the directness and force of the painting.’ It's confessional and ruminative, yet also clipped, ‘teacherly’ and sibylline. Origin Late 16th century: from Latin Sibillinus, from Sibylla sibyl.
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