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.有预知能力的，有先见之明的
词根记忆
- pre(预先) + sci(知道) + ent→预先知道的→预知的
英汉例句
- Indeed, we should note just how prescient the latter have been.
事实上，我们应该注意到，前者是多么有先见之明。 - 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多年后重读该书，会发现它在某些方面有着惊人的先见之明，而在某些方面又错得离谱。
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.
一些有先见之明的大企业预先给自己拿到了银行牌照，这样它们就把现金直接存入欧洲央行，而不是将其委托给银行。 - 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
双语例句
权威例句
词组短语
- prescient move 先见之明
- Prescient Sense 先知先觉
- prescient detail 预知的
- PRESCIENT RESURGENCE 复苏预见
- PRESCIENT FORTIFICATION 预见设防
短语
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