英语字典

prescient

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音标发音

  • 英式音标 [ˈpresiənt'preʃɪənt]
  • 美式音标 [ˈpres.i.ənt]
  • 国际音标 ['presiənt, 'preʃi-, pri:-]
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基本解释

  • adj.有预知能力的，有先见之明的

词根记忆

  • pre(预先) + sci(知道) + ent→预先知道的→预知的

同根派生

  • n性质的同根词
    prescience：先见；预知。

英汉例句

    双语例句

  • Indeed, we should note just how prescient the latter have been.
    事实上，我们应该注意到，前者是多么有先见之明。
  • Re-reading the book, more than 20 years after its publication, it seems strikingly prescient in some ways – and strikingly wrong in others.
    在出版20多年后重读该书，会发现它在某些方面有着惊人的先见之明，而在某些方面又错得离谱。
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  • A few large corporations prescient enough to have their own banking licences are depositing their cash directly with the European Central Bank rather than entrusting it to banks.
    一些有先见之明的大企业预先给自己拿到了银行牌照，这样它们就把现金直接存入欧洲央行，而不是将其委托给银行。

    • 权威例句

  • His Zionism, fired by a prescient reading of European anti-Semitism, was an extension of European nationalism.
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  • Shiller was among the few who were prescient in predicting the housing crisis in 2007.
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  • They were not optimistic about their likelihood of success, and their fears were prescient.
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词组短语

    短语

  • prescient move 先见之明
  • Prescient Sense 先知先觉
  • prescient detail 预知的
  • PRESCIENT RESURGENCE 复苏预见
  • PRESCIENT FORTIFICATION 预见设防

英英字典

    剑桥英英字典

  • knowing or suggesting correctly what will happen in the future

    • 柯林斯英英字典

  • If you say that someone or something was prescient, you mean that they were able to know or predict what was going to happen in the future.
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