seance

英 [ˈseɪɒ̃s] 美 [ˈseɪɑːns]

n.  降神会(设法和亡灵说话)

复数:seances

BNC.27771 / COCA.25478



牛津词典

noun

  1. 降神会(设法和亡灵说话)
    a meeting at which people try to make contact with and talk to the spirits of dead people

    柯林斯词典

    1. 降神会(设法与亡灵对话的集会)
      A seance is a meeting in which people try to make contact with people who have died.

      双语例句

      1. The sisters, in a sort of crude seance, would ask questions of the spirit, who would answer back with mysterious knocks or raps.
        这对姐妹,利用一种拙劣的降神会,向灵魂问问题,而灵魂会利用神秘的敲击声或叩击来回答。
      2. During a seance the medium was offering to bring people back from the other world.
        在降神会期间里,灵媒表演把人们从其他的世界带回。
      3. Other stories of the supernatural related by Walters included a seance by Mary Lincoln to recall the spirit of their dead son.
        沃尔特还讲述了许多不可意思的故事包括玛丽·林肯召开降灵会招回他死去儿子的灵魂。
      4. Thus it can be used to gain knowledge from the dead through necromancy, seance, and divination.
        因此它可用于从巫术,招魂术或启神等形式获得关于死亡的知识。
      5. A ghostly face at the window; a phantasmal presence in the room; spectral emanations; spiritual tappings at a seance.
        窗户上一张幽灵似的脸;房间里幽灵的存在;幽灵幻象;降神会上的膜拜。
      6. For10 years his wife held a seance on Halloween; Houdini never turned up.
        10年了他的妻子一直在万圣节前夕举办了降神会,但是霍迪尼从未出现过。
      7. Among resistant germplasm, white seed sesames were most, yellow and brown seed sesames stood second, and resi seance of grey and black seed sesames were the worst.
        白芝麻抗源材料最多,其次为黄芝麻、褐芝麻,而灰芝麻、黑芝麻抗性最差。

      英英释义

      noun

      1. a meeting of spiritualists
        1. the seance was held in the medium's parlor

        Synonym:    sittingsession