Presage
['presɪdʒ] or ['prɛsɪdʒ]
解释:
(v. t.) Something which foreshows or portends a future event; a prognostic; an omen; an augury.
(v. t.) Power to look the future, or the exercise of that power; foreknowledge; presentiment.
(v. t.) To have a presentiment of; to feel beforehand; to foreknow.
(v. t.) To foretell; to predict; to foreshow; to indicate.
(v. i.) To form or utter a prediction; -- sometimes used with of.
贾维斯整理
同义词及近义词：
v. a. [1]. Forebode, divine, foreknow, have a presentiment of.[2]. Foretell, predict, prophesy, foreshow, betoken, foretoken, prognosticate, augur, VATICINATE.
n. Omen, sign, prognostic, augury, portent, token, foreboding, indication.
亚伯拉罕手打
同义词及反义词：
SYN:Omen, indication, prognostic, premonition
ANT:fulfilment, event, occurrence, realization
SYN:Predict, foresee, foretell, prognosticate, betoken, portend, threaten, augur,[See PORTEND]
多琳校对
解释:
n. something that gives warning of a future event: a foreboding: a presentiment.—v.t. Prēsage′ to forebode: to warn of something to come: to predict.—v.i. to have a presentiment of.—adj. Presage′ful.—ns. Presage′ment the act of presaging: that which is presaged: prediction; Presag′er.
整理:默尔
例句:
- In countless ways, language condenses meanings that record social outcomes and presage social outlooks. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
- I had no more presaged such feats than I had looked forward to an ascent in a balloon, or a voyage to Cape Horn. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
- The blood-red haze that presaged death to my foes swam before my eyes. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星战神.
- The yellow and vapoury sunset which had wrapped up Eustacia from his parting gaze had presaged change. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
- It was only the confirmation of the dark presages which had long gone before. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
- There was in the whole atmosphere of the craft that undefinable something which presages disaster. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
- Dr. Arnold was doubtless right when he looked upon the railway as presaging the end of the feudal system. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
校对:迈拉