Foresight
['fɔːsaɪt] or ['fɔrsaɪt]
解释:
(n.) The act or the power of foreseeing; prescience; foreknowledge.
(n.) Action in reference to the future; provident care; prudence; wise forethought.
(n.) Any sight or reading of the leveling staff, except the backsight; any sight or bearing taken by a compass or theodolite in a forward direction.
(n.) Muzzle sight. See Fore sight, under Fore, a.
阿尔玛编辑
同义词及近义词：
n. [1]. Foreknowledge, prescience, prevision.[2]. Forecast, forethought, precaution, prudence, anticipation, provident regard to the future.
整理:莱昂内尔
解释:
n. act of foreseeing: wise forethought prudence: the sight on the muzzle of a gun: a forward reading of a levelling staff.—adjs. Fore′sighted Fore′sightful; Fore′sightless.
艾米编辑
例句:
- But how about the foresight and the moral retrogression? 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
- This foresight increases still further his natural disposition to save. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
- This foresight and this survey with reference to what is foreseen constitute mind. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
- How much more must an imaginist, like herself, be on fire with speculation and foresight! 简·奥斯汀. 爱玛.
- Mr. Pickwick, with his usual foresight and sagacity, had chosen a peculiarly desirable moment for his visit to the borough. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
- Here is the foresight, said he putting his finger upon the little disc and loop of the hat-securer. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
- Can you look at Miss Halcombe and not see that she has the foresight and the resolution of a man? 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- Which would turn out to have the more foresight in it--her rationality or Caleb's ardent generosity? 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
- Leave out the direction which depends upon foresight of possible future results, and there is no intelligence in present behavior. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
- No insight into the evident fact that power upsets all mechanical foresight and gravitates toward the natural leaders seems to have illuminated those historic deliberations. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
- It was a cause of constant distress to Mrs. Welland that her son-in-law showed so little foresight in planning his days. 伊迪丝·华顿. 纯真年代.
- It is an absolute fact that the great electrical inventors and the men who stood behind them have had little return for their foresight and courage. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
- Anderson was in possession of Spottsylvania, through no foresight of Lee, however. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
- One has to do with the foresight of results, the other with the depth of hold the foreseen outcome has upon the person. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
- So far it was all as she had foreseen; but on entering the house she beheld what no foresight had taught her to expect. 简·奥斯汀. 理智与情感.
校对:罗伯特