| 单词 | foretell |
| 释义 | foretell (once / 923 pages) v To foretell is to predict or hint at something. Some people believe that two crows foretell good luck for the person who sees them. Signs and omens foretell good or bad fortune, and symbolism in the early chapters of a novel can foretell events that happen near the end of the book. Longtime sailors sometimes say that a pink morning sky foretells bad weather later in the day. In each case, something is being foreshadowed or forecast. Fore is an Old English prefix that means "before" or "earlier," and it's combined here with tell, "to reckon or consider." WORD FAMILYforetell: foretelling, foretells, foretold+/foretelling: foretellings/retell: retelling, retells, retold/tell: foretell, retell, teller, telling, tells, told, untellable/teller: tellers/telling: tellingly, tellings/told: untold/untellable: untellably/untold: untoldly USAGE EXAMPLESThe entirety of Putin’s approach to these matters was foretold in his handling of the American threat to militarily intervene in Syria in 2013. The New Yorker(Dec 30, 2016) She also foretold the recent, somewhat belated feminist turn in the “Star Wars” cycle itself. New York Times(Dec 27, 2016) President Franklin D. Roosevelt foretold the story in his famous speech to Congress on Dec. 8, 1941. Time(Dec 08, 2016) 1v foreshadow or presage Syn|Hyper announce, annunciate, harbinger, herald tell let something be known 2v indicate by signs Syn|Hypo|Hyper augur, auspicate, betoken, bode, forecast, foreshadow, omen, portend, predict, 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 3v make a prediction about; tell in advance Syn|Hypo|Hyper anticipate, call, forebode, predict, 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 |
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