词汇 | presage |
释义 | presage verb[ T ] formaluk /ˈpres.ɪdʒ//prɪˈseɪdʒ/ us /ˈpres.ɪdʒ/ us /prɪˈseɪdʒ/ to show or suggest that something, often something unpleasant, will happen: 预示,预兆(尤指不祥之事) But still the economy is not showing signs of any of the excesses that normally presage a recession.但经济仍未显露出任何过剩的迹象,这些迹象通常预示经济衰退。 Synonyms augurformal betokenold use bodeformal foreshadowformal portendformal prefigureformal Predicting things and intuition augur augury bellwether betcha bode herald horizon scanning hunch inkling instinct prefigure premonition premonitory prescience prescient telepathy there's no knowing/telling/sayingidiom unforeseeable unintuitively unreasoning Examples of presagepresage These could presage the emergence of circular chromosomes (see also below) and further study is warranted. Thus, low levels of fear in infancy may presage difficulties in socialization. This institutional heterogeneity presages a great diversity of motives, objectives and behavioural characteristics. The analysis originally presaged in this research project implicitly presumed that economic returns would be positive before externalities were considered. The troubled colossus was being turned briefly into a people's fun palace, its gloomy threat spirited away, presaging its recasting as the locus of democracy. This did not, however, presage any fundamental change of attitude. Actions we perform that are not presaged in our minds, in turn, would appear not to be caused by our minds. Many miracules reported that the cure was presaged by great pain. First, the use of labels to designate particular types of material presages the principle of stylistically heterogeneous topoi to create blocks of structure. The creation and expansion of parcel post would take almost exactly the form he presaged. There was little about the election result that presaged the end of the imperial connection. Dispositional features such as low self-esteem and poor coping have been frequently implicated to presage adolescent substance use. On the one hand, he presaged late nineteenth-century liberalism by rejecting dogma and insisting that theological language was too imprecise to capture theological truth. Could such a discourse be all-embracing, and presage a change? Results are discussed as highlighting a pathway by which difficulties attaining autonomy in adolescence may presage the development of long-term difficulties in social functioning. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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