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

• 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

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

英英释义

noun

• a meeting of spiritualists
  1. the seance was held in the medium's parlor
  Synonym:sittingsession

双语例句

• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。