| 单词 | prescient |
| 释义 | prescientWord family adjectiveprescientnounprescienceadverbpresciently pre·sci·ent /ˈpresiənt $ ˈpreʃənt, ˈpriː-/ adjectiveadj formal FUTUREable to imagine or know what will happen in the future 有预知能力的，能预知未来的 —prescience noun [uncountableU] Examples from the Corpus prescient• That he insisted I drive him showed that my decision not to keep the jeep with me was prescient.• The parting between the two great composers was poignantly prescient.• Howes thought it a prescient occasion.• They proved to be prescient on both counts.• In the wake of the Los Angeles riots, it would be foolish to ignore Galbraith's prescient warnings.• That passage appeared prescient when the disastrous wreck on the Scillies scuttled four warships. (1600-1700) Latin present participle of praescire “to know before” |
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