| 单词 | predict |
| 释义 | predict (once / 183 pages) v To predict is to say what you think is going to happen in the future. If you predict that you'll win the poker championship, you're either really confident in your poker skills or you're cheating. The prefix pre means "before." Dict comes from the Latin dicere, which means "to say", yet you can use predict to refer to things that can't say anything at all. Darkening skies can predict a coming storm, for example, and a runny nose can predict a cold. You can predict something based on factual evidence, or on a crystal-ball reading, or just on plain intuition. WORD FAMILYpredict: predictable, predicted, predicting, prediction, predictive, predictor, predicts+/predictability: predictabilities/predictable: predictability, predictably, unpredictable/predicted: unpredicted/prediction: predictions/predictive: predictively, unpredictive/predictor: predictors/unpredictability: unpredictabilities/unpredictable: unpredictability, unpredictably USAGE EXAMPLESBut just as he predicts, cars accelerate through, hoping to cross the signal as the yellow flashes. The Guardian(Jan 03, 2017) Though rivers along the Gulf Coast were rising rapidly Monday, only minor flooding was predicted. New York Times(Jan 02, 2017) “There’s no timetable because it’s hard to predict,” Lin said before the game. Washington Times(Jan 02, 2017) 1v make a prediction about; tell in advance Syn|Hypo|Hyper anticipate, call, forebode, foretell, prognosticate, promise read interpret the significance of, as of palms, tea leaves, intestines, the sky; also of human behavior outguess, second-guessattempt to anticipate or predict augurpredict from an omen bet, wagermaintain with or as if with a bet calculate, forecastpredict in advance prophesy, vaticinatepredict or reveal through, or as if through, divine inspiration scrydivine by gazing into crystals vaticinateforetell through or as if through the power of prophecy enlighten, irradiategive spiritual insight to; in religion guess, hazard, pretend, venture put forward, of a guess, in spite of possible refutation 2v indicate by signs Syn|Hypo|Hyper augur, auspicate, betoken, bode, forecast, foreshadow, foretell, omen, portend, prefigure, presage, prognosticate threaten to be a menacing indication of something:"The clouds threaten rain" foreshowforetell by divine inspiration bespeak, betoken, indicate, point, signal be a signal for or a symptom of |
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