| 释义 |
envision, v.|ɛnˈvɪʒən|
[f. en-1 + vision n.]
trans. To see or foresee as in a vision; to envisage; to visualize. So enˈvisioning vbl. n.
1921L. Strachey Q. Vict. vii. 221 His blackest hypochondria had never envisioned quite so miserable a Catastrophe. 1925Chambers's Jrnl. Dec. 800/1 Namitie..resigned himself apparently to envisioning her in the arms of the perfidious cousin. 1927Observer 15 May 6 Karel Capek has..envisioned a world in which atomic energy, having been harnessed, first provides mankind with a new religion and then sets all the world at war. 1933J. Baillie And Life Everlasting (1934) ii. 24 The indictment is..that the glories of heaven have always blinded the eyes of those that envisioned them to the more intimate glories of earth. 1938Observer 18 Dec. 11/2 Mr. Houghton..is addicted to words like ‘envisioning’ which are not to be found in Webster or in the New English Dictionary. 1952M. McCarthy Groves of Academe (1953) iii. 40 And the more he envisioned this prospect, the more he was of two minds about it. 1953S. Spender Creative Element iii. 67 The development of modern literature today away from such highly individualistic envisionings. 1963Economist 31 Aug. 744/2 The Negro firebrands, who..envisioned the march as an excuse for swarming into the very offices of Congressmen. |