Delphic oracle

基本解釋

The occupant of the Oval Office had to be “a combination of scoutmaster, Delphic oracle, hero of the silver screen and father of the multitudes,” he said.
想要入主白宮，就必須練就一身“合體功夫”，同時成為“童子軍團長，特爾斐神諭，銀幕英雄和國父等多個角色”。
Not straight answers, unfortunately, for Clio, the muse of history and the only guide we’ve got, is about as lucid as the Delphic oracle.
遺憾的是，這些問題不會得到直截了當(dāng)?shù)幕卮稹?因為克萊奧，這位司職歷史的女神，已經(jīng)在特爾菲神諭之中為我們清晰的做出了指引。
At the end of his life, Rousseau acknowledged that it was not nearly so easy as he had assumed to follow the Delphic oracle’s injunction to “Know thyself.”
在去世前不久，盧梭承認(rèn)遵從德爾斐神諭的指令—“認(rèn)識你自己”--根本沒有原先想象的容易。

The Delphic Oracle is interpreted by Socrates at least to command engaging with others in philosophical conversation.
蘇格拉底如此解譯德爾菲神諭,至少是為了要能夠,和其它人進行哲學(xué)對話。
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So, goes to -- he's a barbarian, but the barbarians came to the Delphic Oracle too, because you want to know what the gods want.
因此,他去了,雖然他是個暴君,但是暴君也得去神示所,因為他想知道神想要什么
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He recalls the story don't you remember of a man named Charephon a friend of his who had gone to the Delphic Oracle who had gone to Oracle of Delphi and asked if there was anyone wiser than Socrates and was told there was not.
他回憶起那個故事，你們記得嗎,關(guān)于一位名為Charephon的朋友,他前去請示阿波羅神諭,即德爾菲神諭,是否有人比蘇格拉底聰明,得到的結(jié)果是沒有。
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He encourages the reader to wonder who was the Pythian priestess who interpreted the Delphic oracle, vent or dummy, spirit or medium?
ECONOMIST: Ventriloquism

the oracle of Apollo at Delphi that gave answers held by the ancient Greeks to be of great authority but also noted for their ambiguity