prescient
音标发音
- 英式音标 [ˈpresiənt'preʃɪənt]
- 美式音标 [ˈpres.i.ənt]
- 国际音标 ['presiənt, 'preʃi-, pri:-]
- 英式发音
- 美式发音
基本解释
- adj.有預知能力的，有先見之明的
词根记忆
- pre(預先) + sci(知道) + ent→預先知道的→預知的
英汉例句
- Indeed, we should note just how prescient the latter have been.
事實上，我們應該注意到，前者是多麽有先見之明。 - Re-reading the book, more than 20 years after its publication, it seems strikingly prescient in some ways – and strikingly wrong in others.
在出版20多年後重讀該書，會發現它在某些方麪有著驚人的先見之明，而在某些方麪又錯得離譜。
blog.sina.com.cn - A few large corporations prescient enough to have their own banking licences are depositing their cash directly with the European Central Bank rather than entrusting it to banks.
一些有先見之明的大企業預先給自己拿到了銀行牌照，這樣它們就把現金直接存入歐洲央行，而不是將其委托給銀行。 - His Zionism, fired by a prescient reading of European anti-Semitism, was an extension of European nationalism.
NEWYORKER: The Party Faithful - Shiller was among the few who were prescient in predicting the housing crisis in 2007.
FORBES: Five Steps That Banks Must Take To Achieve The Good Society - They were not optimistic about their likelihood of success, and their fears were prescient.
FORBES: The Fiscal Crisis Of The Welfare State
雙語例句
權威例句
词组短语
- prescient move 先見之明
- Prescient Sense 先知先覺
- prescient detail 預知的
- PRESCIENT RESURGENCE 複囌預見
- PRESCIENT FORTIFICATION 預見設防
短語
英英字典
- knowing or suggesting correctly what will happen in the future
- If you say that someone or something was prescient, you mean that they were able to know or predict what was going to happen in the future.
- prescience