英和和英

名詞

crystal ball (plural crystal balls)

1. A globe of glass or crystal used to foretell the future.

   The psychic looked into the crystal ball and saw into the future.

   • 1957, Sydney J. Bounds, The Robot Brains, London: Digit Books, page 31:

     "Well, Victor agreed and Madame Rosita sat down with her crystal ball on a black cloth in front of her."

2. (by extension) A way of seeing into the future.

   If her past is a crystal ball to her future, she will perhaps never be rich, even though she is a kind, hard-working person.

3. One of the magickal tools of Wicca, used for divination and altar purposes

同意語

• crystal sphere, orbuculum, shew stone, showstone, seeing stone, scrying stone

参考

• scry