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prolepsis/prəʊˈlepsis, -ˈli:psis/n. (pl. prolepses /-si:z/) 1 Rhet. the anticipation and answering of possible objections in rhetorical speech 【修】预期 2 anticipation 预料 3 the representation of a thing as existing before it actually does or did so, as in he was a dead man when he entered 预期叙述法(把未发生的事当作已发生的来叙述，如 he was a dead man when he entred 他要进来就死定了) 4 Gram. the anticipatory use of adjectives, as in paint the town red 【语法】(形容词的)预期描写法(如 paint the town red 饮酒作乐) □ proleptic adj.[Late Latin from Greek prolēpsis, from prolambanō ‘anticipate’ (as PRO-2, lambanō ‘take’)] |