| 词汇 | envisaging |
| 释义 | envisaging present participle ofenvisage envisage verb[ T ] formaluk /ɪnˈvɪz.ɪdʒ/ us /ɪnˈvɪz.ɪdʒ/(US alsoenvision) C1 to imagine or expect something in the future, especially something good: 设想;展望，预计 Train fare increases of 15 percent are envisaged for the next year.预计明年火车票价将会上涨15%。 [ + that ]It's envisaged that building will start at the end of this year.预计大楼将在今年年底动工。 [ + -ing verb ]When do you envisage finishing the project?你预计工程什么时候竣工？ [ + question word ]It's hard to envisage how it might happen.真是难以设想怎么会发生这种事情。 to form a mental picture of something or someone you have never seen: 想象 He wasn't what I'd expected - I'd envisaged someone much taller.他和我所期待的不一样——想象中他的个头应该高得多。 to imagine something imagineYou can just imagine her storing up these anecdotes for her dinner parties. think ofI want you to think of a time when you felt happy. pictureCan you picture yourself at the age of 60 doing what you do now? pictureWhen I say 'your car' you have a picture of that in your head. in your mind's eyeIn my mind's eye, I'm still a uni student and not a middle-aged worker. conceiveI can't conceive why anyone would want to hurt her. 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 envisagingenvisaging In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use. Turning to the life scenarios, crossovers into the past tended to occur wherever the narrators had difficulty envisaging or talking about their futures. Presumably, we are envisaging a situation in which the government will ban reliance on seniority. Envisaging a neutral, ahistoric bond is nave because national identity always i co-exists in relation to other projects. On the basis of this experience we are envisaging new applications of the algorithm in the area of demand aggregation. Within two generations, urban reformers would be envisaging the construction of idealized semi-rural environments consciously distanced from the hurlyburly of production and exchange. How should historians go about envisaging such a definition? Thus, the architect's criticism (of the world) does not end with description, the real task is envisaging and articulating an alternative. The second was the apocalyptic envisaging of the rise, degeneration and fall of civilisations as propounded in the writings of both scholarly and popularising twentieth-century metahistorians. Physical complexity, on the other hand, can be such that the conventional solutions, envisaging joint consumption and use, are inadequate means of aligning effectively the institutional devices with physical reality. Envisaging the future has to be based on trend projections, or a theoretical framework, or on logical or reasonable supposition - or perhaps pure speculation (if there is such a thing). Such an envisaging might even be expected: it is a cliché of audio-visual theory that music mirrors the form, design and mood of the image in rational, decipherable ways. He is not envisaging a many-valued logic. Therefore, we must be able to withstand a long war, as well as envisaging a short, horrible nuclear exchange that would end with mutual devastation. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I do not think the imagination of any normal person need be unduly strained in envisaging the situation that would then present iteslf. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We now appear to be envisaging a position in which the bookseller, author and publisher are all equally liable to criminal proceedings. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 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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