| 单词 | foresee |
| 释义 | fore·see transitive verb 1. < should have foreseen the risk of economic collapse > < surely you can foresee what will happen next > 2. obsolete 3. obsolete intransitive verb obsolete Synonyms: < I had not foreseen the black depths of loneliness — Francis Stuart > < our failure to foresee all future problems — Vera M. Dean > foreknow, stressing the prior knowledge, usu., though not always, implies supernatural powers or the assistance of them, as divine revelation < he cannot, however, foreknow how his opponent will behave in action — A.J.Toynbee > < they were willing to say that God foreknows the sin of those who are not elected to salvation — K.S.Latourette > divine, often indistinguishable from foresee, frequently suggests a gift, the assistance of a special power, or unusual discernment < the military genius is the general who repeatedly succeeds in divining the unpredictable by guesswork or intuition — A.J.Toynbee > < impossible for him to divine the complexity and subtlety of these abstract mathematical ideas which were waiting for discovery — A.N.Whitehead > < whose talents for divining news and coordinating its coverage remain a matter of perpetual awe — Gladwin Hill > apprehend often implies somewhat less certainty of what is foreseen than the previous words but a stronger emotional effect of the advance knowledge or the suspicion, often suggesting especially a certain anxiety or dread < she apprehended, not without good cause, that his kingdom might soon be extended to her frontiers — T.B.Macaulay > < his lips quivered, and she apprehended rather than heard what he said — Ellen Glasgow > anticipate suggests an action of some kind in relation or seeming relation to the thing foreseen or prophesied, as the formulation of an historical hypothesis that makes the future event reasonable or seemingly inevitable, or an experiencing of prior joy or pain on account of the thing foreseen, or an interrelated move as one that forestalls, aggravates, or is motivated by the thing foreseen < his leadership in the state has consisted of anticipating the thinking of the major groups of voters and following what he believes to be public opinion — Frank Tollman > < to anticipate charity by preventing poverty — Theodore Bienenstok > < sometimes we are able to anticipate a news event … but more often than not news breaks without any warning — S.W.Rumsam > < to anticipate the arrival of the next attack — H.G.Wells > |
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