| 词汇 | presaging |
| 释义 | presaging present participle ofpresage presage verb[ T ] formaluk /ˈpres.ɪdʒ//prɪˈseɪdʒ/ us /ˈpres.ɪdʒ//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 presage prescience telepathically telepathy there's no knowing/telling/sayingidiom unforeseeable unintuitively Examples of presagingpresaging In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use. 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. We could also make clear the need for an honest answer on the unemployment figures before the election, and an end to the lies that are presaging that election. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Now she seemed impelled to paint huge stark canvases in black and white, all of war or presaging war. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Additionally, he took on work for advertising and commercial illustration, presaging his focus on industrial photography two decades later. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. In 1935, he was awarded the second-highest agrgation mark in the nation for philosophy, presaging a bright future. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. There were also notable actions by women in wider society, presaging their wider engagement in politics which would come with the second wave. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. A birth control movement developed during the 19th and early 20th centuries presaging the modern debate over women's body rights. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Presaging an era of state censorship and control of culture. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. It also adopts an impressionist approach to its imagery, often presaging events with familiar objects, patterns and colours using associative editing techniques. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Smith professed that he had visionary dreams with highly symbolic content, perhaps related to his ambivalence about religious faith and sometimes presaging events to come. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. He devoted the last half of his career to understanding that end, presaging those contemporary ecologists who advocate the understanding of the interface between ecology and agriculture. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. 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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