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单词 presage
释义
presage
verb[T]
formal
uk
/ˈpres.ɪdʒ//prɪˈseɪdʒ/us
/ˈpres.ɪdʒ//prɪˈseɪdʒ/
to show orsuggestthat something, often somethingunpleasant, willhappen:
预示，预兆（尤指不祥之事）
But still theeconomyis notshowingsignsof any of the excesses thatnormallypresage arecession.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
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Predicting things and intuition
  • augur
  • augury
  • bellwether
  • betcha
  • bode
  • far-sighted
  • inkling
  • instinct
  • intuit
  • intuition
  • intuitive
  • prescience
  • prescient
  • prophecy
  • prophesy
  • prophetic
  • psychic
  • second-guess
  • the writing is on the wallidiom
  • visionary
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(Definition ofpresagefrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofpresage

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These couldpresagethe emergence of circular chromosomes (see also below) and further study is warranted.
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Thus, low levels of fear in infancy maypresagedifficulties in socialization.
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This institutional heterogeneity presages a great diversity of motives, objectives and behavioural characteristics.
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The analysis originally presaged in this research project implicitly presumed that economic returns would be positive before externalities were considered.
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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.
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This did not, however,presageany fundamental change of attitude.
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Actions we perform that are not presaged in our minds, in turn, would appear not to be caused by our minds.
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Many miracules reported that the cure was presaged by great pain.
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First, the use of labels to designate particular types of material presages the principle of stylistically heterogeneous topoi to create blocks of structure.
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The creation and expansion of parcel post would take almost exactly the form he presaged.
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There was little about the election result that presaged the end of the imperial connection.
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Dispositional features such as low self-esteem and poor coping have been frequently implicated topresageadolescent substance use.
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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.
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Could such a discourse be all-embracing, andpresagea change?
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Results are discussed as highlighting a pathway by which difficulties attaining autonomy in adolescence maypresagethe development of long-term difficulties in social functioning.
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