0 a statement that says what is going to happen in the future, especially one that is based on what you believe about a particular matter rather than existing facts -- (尤指基于主观判断的)预言
If philosophy or astrology were revealed to the ancients, then the sayings of philosophers or astrologers and the prophecies of inspired seers are equivalent.
In the 1960s, some very vivid prophecies about the relationship of telecommunications and the city were made.
However, there is reason to warn against too hasty a conclusion in this regard and against those very pessimistic prophecies.
To this extent, the variables used in surveys represent self-fulfilling prophecies.
When they are not reckless, our gambles about practices amount to self-fulfilling prophecies: they change our relation to nature or to other people so as to make themselves more real.
I use the word adds here because the real difficulties, the important contextual conditions, the soil in which such prophecies flourish, have to do with power and dominance.
In spite of numerous prophecies of the imminent death of many languages, linguists always find a handful of old people who still speak them and can be competent consultants.
The series of high medieval prophecies under discussion was transmitted, with a large degree of variation, as much by manuscript illustrations as by any common text.