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单词 presentiment
释义
presentimentpre‧sen‧ti‧ment /prɪˈzentəmənt/ noun [countable] Word Origin
WORD ORIGINpresentiment
Origin:
1700-1800 French pressentiment, from Latin praesentire ‘to feel before’
Examples
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  • Heavy with presentiment, I turned around and walked back to my office.
  • I didn't exactly have a presentiment - certainly not of anything like this happening.
  • I have an intractable presentiment that I will soon start seeing them in Tod's dream.
  • I understood that you had had some sort of presentiment of disaster.
  • Since the unfortunate accident to your father, I have had the strangest presentiments concerning you, at times.
formal a strange feeling that something is going to happen, especially something bad SYN  premonitionpresentiment of a presentiment of disaster
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