1A person regarded as an inspired teacher or proclaimer of the will of God.

《旧约》先知耶利米。

1. 1.1the Prophet (among Muslims) Muhammad.
   （穆斯林的）先知穆罕默德
2. 1.2the Prophet (among Mormons) Joseph Smith or one of his successors.
   （摩门教的）约瑟夫·史密斯（或其追随者之一）
3. 1.3 A person who advocates or speaks in a visionary way about a new belief, cause, or theory.
   （信仰，事业，理论）宣扬者，提倡者
   a prophet of radical individualism

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   • In many ways his importance is overstated, especially in the field of theory, and his place in the development of an independent air force is best viewed as a prophet or advocate rather than as a system builder.
   • Those modern-day prophets, the health and nutrition experts, reckon that getting five portions of fruit and vegetables under your belt should be as easy as pie.
   • But when they talk about being bullied by them or any lesser lights speaking in the name of the prophets of spin, the only blame attaches to themselves for allowing even a particle of surrender.
   • With his vision of an interconnected world, he was one of the earliest prophets of communications technology and globalisation as a way of reducing the marginalisation of much of the poor world.
   • Franklin was the homespun wit, Jefferson the far-reaching pen, Adams the sober prophet behind the revolutionary moment.
4. 1.4 A person who makes or claims to be able to make predictions.
   预言者，预言家
   the anti-technology prophets of doom

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   • But her detractors are wrong in demanding that she have both an artist's vision and a prophet's precognition.
   • It does not need a prophet to predict that history presented that way will encourage many readers to dig deeper.
   • For him, artists at their best are like Romantic heroes engaged with insurmountable crises or like prophets of a gauzy future.
   • This novel proves that he is not only a literary Goliath, but also a modern-day prophet who has his fingers on the pulse of the contemporary world, able to predict its vital beats.
   • It just goes to show that the prophets of doom never sleep.
   • Then, just as it seemed the prophets were predicting a dire season for Melrose, the Greenyards men produced arguably the best try of the game.
   • You don't have to be a prophet to predict what happens next.
   • On that Great Day of which prophets speak but in which they do not truly believe, on that day when the world is completely cleansed of evil, then I, too, will go down into darkness, swallowing curses.
   • At key moments in her writing, it is clear that she recognized herself as a visionary and a prophet of the first order.
   • He has annexed citizens' goodwill, not in fiscal speak but in a prophet's rhetoric, or even a poet's.
   • Throughout human history there had always been self-proclaimed prophets who have predicted the end of the world.
   • These historians have set themselves up as prophets blessed with a vision denied to ordinary Australians.
   • There are still those who refuse to believe the prophets of doom.
   • Worse yet, we play prophets, trying to predict what might or might not be going on in the minds of complex men and what might happen as a result.
   • This is what the prophets of doom have been waiting for.
   • World crude oil prices have not risen with ‘free market’ supply and demand, confounding all the prophets of doom or boom.
   • Which of our revered and vastly over-paid technology prophets predicted that people would be able to earn money sending text messages from their mobile phones?
   • At times, prophets were called to predict the future.
   • It means accepting and hoping that the doors of the future should be wide open to the present beyond all the failures, declines, and catastrophes predicted by strange prophets.
   • It is the prophet's and visionary's belief that poetry expresses truth, even at the expense of beauty.

2the Prophets(in Christian use) the books of Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, Daniel, and the twelve minor prophets.

1. 2.1 (in Jewish use) one of the three canonical divisions of the Hebrew Bible, distinguished from the Law and the Hagiographa, and comprising the books of Joshua, Judges, Samuel, Kings, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, Isaiah, and the twelve minor prophets.
   〔犹太教〕（《希伯来圣经》正经篇目三部分之一，与《律法书》和《圣录》有别，包括《耶和华记》、《士师记》、《撒母耳记》、《列王记》、《耶利米书》、《以西结书》、《以赛亚书》以及十二个小先知写的《先知书》）
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   • The tripartite division of Jewish tradition into Law, Prophets, and Writings does not favor a midpoint, or at least has not led to a discussion of center, despite the importance of the Torah.
   • It is these differences which distinguish Torah from the Prophets.
   • That includes the books of the Prophets and Writings as well.
   • Surrounding these two key prayers are clusters from the classics of Jewish literature: the Torah, the Prophets, the Psalms, and the Talmud.
   • The Scriptures are to be read in light of Torah because Torah, judged canon-historically, forms the ‘center,’ while the Prophets and the Writings are interpretations of this center.