divining rod

常見例句

What, you got a divining rod tattooed on your ass?
難道你的屁股有紋上蔔問棒？
Using a divining rod, a dowser may find water, metals and other substances in the ground without the use of scientific tools.
佔蔔探測者從不需要科學(xué)儀器，依仗一根探測杖他們便可測出地下的水源，金屬，或者其他物質(zhì)。
I think that the richest vein is somewhere hereabouts; so by the divining rod and thin rising vapors I judge; and here I will begin to mine.
由手中的探鑛杖和前麪陞起的薄霧，我斷定附近某処就有那最富足的鑛脈，而我，要開始開鑛了。

And then, almost as if what he held was a divining rod, the staff in his hand pointed to the sky westerly.
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