| 单词 | future |
| 释义 | future (once / 40 pages) nadj A time that hasn’t happened yet is the future. You're reading this in the present, and what you read by clicking on the link for the next screen will happen in the future, i.e., in the time ahead. Future goes back to the Latin root futūrus "about to be," and it is a noun or an adjective referring to things to come. When we hope, we are often imagining what will happen in the future. You might dream of becoming a doctor in the future, or you're looking forward to the weekend, just days away but still in the future. Now is the present, yesterday is the past, and tomorrow is the future, the opposite of the past. WORD FAMILYfuture: futureless, futurely, futures, futurism, futurity+/futurism: futurisms, futurist, futuristic/futurist: futurists/futuristic: futuristically/futurity: futurities USAGE EXAMPLESDear Amy: I appreciated your advice to “Worried Future Mother-in-Law,” whose daughter was marrying a guy whose mother was belligerent when drunk. Washington Post(Dec 22, 2016) But experts say it is the battle for dominance in innovation and science that is more likely to determine the economy of the future. Washington Post(Dec 30, 2016) An additional 200,000 Israelis live in East Jerusalem, which Palestinians want as their future capital. Washington Post(Jan 02, 2017) 1n the time yet to come Syn|Ant|Hypo|Hyper futurity, hereafter, time to come past, past times, yesteryear the time that has elapsed kingdom come the end of time by-and-byan indefinite time in the future offingthe near or foreseeable future tomorrowthe near future mananaan indefinite time in the future time the continuum of experience in which events pass from the future through the present to the past 2n a verb tense that expresses actions or states in the future Syn|Hyper future tense tense a grammatical category of verbs used to express distinctions of time 3n bulk commodities bought or sold at an agreed price for delivery at a specified future date Hypo|Hyper oil future, petroleum future petroleum bought or sold at an agreed price for delivery at a specified future date soybean futuresoybeans bought or sold at an agreed price for delivery at a specified future date wheat futurewheat bought or sold at an agreed price for delivery at a specified future date commodity, good, trade good articles of commerce 4adj yet to be or coming some future historian will evaluate him Syn|Ant incoming arriving at a place or position approaching, coming, forthcoming, upcomingof the relatively near future future dayyet to come earlyexpected in the near future emerging, risingcoming to maturity in storein readiness; awaiting prox, proximoin or of the next month after the present prospectiveof or concerned with or related to the future past earlier than the present time; no longer current presenttemporal sense; intermediate between past and future; now existing or happening or in consideration noncurrentnot current or belonging to the present time outgoingleaving a place or a position oldof long duration; not new ago, agonegone by; or in the past ancientbelonging to times long past especially of the historical period before the fall of the Western Roman Empire bygone, bypast, departed, foregone, gonewell in the past; former chivalric, knightly, medievalcharacteristic of the time of chivalry and knighthood in the Middle Ages early, former, otherbelonging to the distant past erstwhile, former, old, one-time, onetime, quondam, sometimebelonging to some prior time former, late, previous(used especially of persons) of the immediate past historic, historicalbelonging to the past; of what is important or famous in the past lastimmediately past late, recentof the immediate past or just previous to the present time oldenlong past otherrecently past prehistoric, prehistoricalbelonging to or existing in times before recorded history thenat a specific prior time ult, ultimoin or of the month preceding the present one existingpresently existing immediateof the present time and place inst, instantin or of the present month latter-daybelonging to the present or recent times 5adj effective in or looking toward the future he was preparing for future employment opportunities Syn prospective of or concerned with or related to the future 6adj a verb tense or other formation referring to events or states that have not yet happened future auxiliary 7adj (of elected officers) elected but not yet serving Syn next, succeeding incoming arriving at a place or position |
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