英：['fɔːtʃən,telɪŋ]
fortunetelling如何读
fortunetelling是什么意思
算命，占卜；
算命的；
fortunetelling英英释义
noun
someone or something with the supposed ability to foretell future events and especially the details of a person's future Some of the fortune-tellers he encounters are ludicrously off the mark; others are uncannily accurate.—Michael Upchurch You do not have to be a fortune teller to realize that sneezes, sniffles, plugged up noses and red eyes will be making their appearance in most of our houses within the next two months.—Glenn Haege By the early 1900s it was possible to get a "psychic reading" from a mechanical fortune teller at the local penny arcade.—Ralph and Terry Kovalsometimes, specifically: a child's toy that consists of paper folded into four pyramid-shaped parts which are manipulated by the fingers to open and close with each part having a flap that can be unfolded to reveal an answer to one's question about the future : cootie catcher Some of the most commonly made folk toys are made of paper: fortune tellers (also known as cootie catchers), paper airplanes, spitballs shot through straws … —Lowell (Massachusetts) Sun Your child may choose to decorate the fortune teller … with stickers or drawings, or to color the outside squares instead of writing the name of a color. —Sally Worsham
For thousands of years, people have gone to fortune tellers because they wanted to know whom they would marry or whether they were going to be rich or famous.—Muse
fortunetelling词源英文解释
The first known use of fortune teller was in 1582
fortunetelling儿童词典英英释义
freehandedadjective
generous sense 1
freedwomannoun
a woman freed from slavery
frangipaninoun
any of several shrubs or small trees that have thick fleshy branches and large fragrant waxy-looking white, yellow, red, or pink flowers and are native to the American tropics but are grown elsewhere for their beauty
Francophileadjective
very friendly to France or French culture
Francophileadjective
very friendly to France or French culture
frackingnoun
the injection of fluid into shale beds at high pressure in order to free up petroleum resources (as oil or natural gas)
foxyadjective
resembling a fox in appearance
cunning and careful in planning and action
physically attractive
fortune-tellernoun
a person who claims to foretell future events
fortunetelling 例句
1 I had no more belief in palm reading or fortunetelling, but all I could think about were the words from the woman with the missing teeth.
2 Nodding to his change of heart Thursday, Furman admitted economists are often poor fortune tellers.
3 He got his start in fortunetelling as a child when his grandmother taught him how to read tea leaves.
4 It was also influenced by the Zoltar fortunetelling machines that were once common attractions at boardwalks and arcades, she said.
5 Yet as I strolled the New Orleans streets and listened to the voodoo legends, I knew there was no better place for me to lose my fortunetelling innocence.
6 This includes activities like an exclusive Bosphorus cruise, time with a Turkish coffee fortune teller, and a Wonders of Istanbul local tour.
7 Across 1913 Paris, 2014 Los Angeles, and 2044 Paris, Gabrielle is haunted by recurring imagery — pigeons, fortune tellers, dolls, Madame Butterfly — as well as a deep sense of impending doom, the vague idea that something awful is going to happen to her.
8 A few miles away, throngs of young people lining the streets of the old town peddled cheap fortunetelling, as pulsing music poured out of nearby bars.
9 Before that, fortunetelling constituted disorderly conduct, after an appellate court ruled in 1945 that one’s belief in the ability to discern the future is not a defense.
10 That aside, the old fortune teller's curse tale doesn't have much going for it, as the family is afflicted with hirsuteness (Marge), stretch-neck (Bart), ladybug body (Maggie), and horse body (Lisa), all thanks to Homer wrecking the psychic's shop.
11 And — spoiler alert — that means she’s running her own fortunetelling business again.
12 Just a decade ago, the Communist Party condemned fortunetelling, feng shui and many traditional funerary rites as “feudal superstition.”
13 Jackie receives a prophecy in the form of a souvenir card from a “Medicine Man” fortunetelling machine at a gas station gift shop.
14 Estelle is a fortune teller and her handsome husband, Tony, is a charismatic tightrope walker.
15 At first, she scaled back her practice to a little fortunetelling for family and close friends.
16 On New Year's Eve, Bulgarians perform fortunetelling tricks with leaves and water glasses.
在除夕那天, 保加利亚人用树叶和水杯算命玩.
17 the carnival's fortune-teller should have predicted that I'd pass right by her
18 One of those women was arrested in 2011 and charged with grand larceny in connection with her fortunetelling.
19 It lays out the broad trends of the past 50 years, assesses their sociological causes and then does a bit of fortunetelling.
20 What Mr. Donovan’s own extensive research about fortunetelling left him with was the feeling that predicting the future required developing certain powers, but not the kind that involve actual soothsaying.