预言家

And some economic doomsayers still think it could get a lot worse.

一些经济预言家仍然相信可能情况会更坏。

Doomsayers predicted a decade of lost growth.

悲观的预言家预测。。。

Doomsters who forecast bank runs and devaluation in Latvia (followed by Estonia and Lithuania, which also have currencies pegged to the euro) have little to show for their gloomy prophecies.

那些预测拉脱维亚将步爱沙尼亚和立陶宛（两国也将本国货币与欧元挂钩）后尘发生银行挤兑及货币贬值的灾难预言家现在已无法展示他们的悲观预言了。

And there was one Anna, a prophetess, the daughter of Phanuel of the tribe of Aser, of a great age, who departed not from the temple, but served God with fastings and prayers night and day.

有一个女预言家，名叫安娜，是亚设部族法内力的女儿，她年龄挺大的，从不离开寺庙，而是日夜禁食祈祷，侍奉神。

Was he a determined pessimist, who took some pleasure in his reputation as the Cassandra of the Fens?

是那个坚定不移的悲观主义者，还是那个自嘲为不被世人理解的预言家？

Wall Street's gloomiest seers think average house prices could fall by 10% this year.

华尔街最悲观的预言家认为近年平均房价可能下降10%。

If it isn't the two groomsmen of the apocalypse.

这不就是那两个预言家

Black wrote a letter to the Daily Prophet protesting their portrayal of Hags as flesh-eating monsters.

布莱克写了一封信给预言家日报，抗议它们把丑婆描绘成食人兽

When the credit crunch hit in 2007, he was treated as a prophet and quickly became a fixture on the conference circuit, delivering jeremiads in heavily accented English (he was born in Turkey and grew up in Iran and Italy).

当2007年爆发信贷危机时，他被看做预言家，并迅速成为巡回会议的关键人物，操着浓重口音的英语发着哀叹（鲁比尼生于土耳其，在伊朗和意大利长大）。

"My good friend, as in all probability I own my present safety to that influence, it would ill become me to search too closely into its source; therefore, instead of condemning him for his intimacy with outlaws, you must give me leave to excuse any little irregularity there may be in such a connection; not altogether for preserving my life, for my own idea was that it never was in much danger, but certainly for saving me 4,000 piastres, which, being translated, means neither more nor less than 24,000 livres of our money--a sum at which, most assuredly, I should never have been estimated in France, proving most indisputably," added Albert with a laugh,"that no prophet is honored in his own country."

&我的好朋友，我现在的平安多半得归功于那种力量，这件事我不应该太刨根问底。所以，你不能要求我来责备他和不法之徒之间的这种密切关系，而应该让我原谅他在这种关系上越礼的细节，这倒决非是因为他保全了我的性命，而因为依我看，我的性命是不会有什么危险的，倒是给我省下了四千毕阿士特，四千毕阿特，换成我国的钱，要相当于两万四千里弗。这笔数目，要是我在法国被绑票是肯定不会被估的这么高的，这完全证实了那句俗话，&阿尔贝大笑着说，&没有一个预言家能在他的本国受到尊崇。&

The split between the two groups can hardly be papered over.

这两个团体间的分歧难以掩饰。

This approach not only encourages a greater number of responses, but minimizes the likelihood of stale groupthink.

这种做法不仅鼓励了更多的反应，而且减少跟风的可能性。