| 单词 | prescient |
| 释义 | prescient adjective formaluk/ˈpres.i.ənt/us/ˈpreʃ.ənt/knowingorsuggestingcorrectlywhat willhappenin thefuture: 预知的，有预知能力的，有先见之明的a prescientwarning预见性的警告 Synonyms clairvoyant predictive prophetic visionary(ABLE TO IMAGINE THE FUTURE) Predicting things and intuition
Examplesofprescientprescient Businesses may make their own agreements irrespective of the law, but they always act (in hisprescientwords) in its shadow. From theCambridge English Corpus The author's projections have in certain cases provedprescientand in others been negated by rapidly changing circumstances. From theCambridge English Corpus I especially enjoyed reading about theprescient, if largely overlooked, contributions of very early investigators in the field. From theCambridge English Corpus People may try to anticipate the future, and we can even predict the future in some cases, but no one is literallyprescient. From theCambridge English Corpus Thisprescientwar-torn oratorio should enter the repertoire as an apt epic of our time. From theCambridge English Corpus As had happened with other problems in bioethics (and with genetic engineering most notably), the speculative discussions prior to important scientific breakthroughs were remarkablyprescient. From theCambridge English Corpus The other adjectives used to modify variation arise in the context of selection in conceptual change, but no one thinks that people, including scientists, areprescient. From theCambridge English Corpus Britt's testimony was moreprescientthan he let on. From theCambridge English Corpus Headlam comes across as an acerbic yet perceptive and sometimesprescientcommentator. From theCambridge English Corpus Combe is left extremelyprescientin reacting to an industrial revolution which was barely perceptible, and rationalizing a set of capitalist relations which had not yet emerged. From theCambridge English Corpus Jwaideh wasprescientin another interpretation. From theCambridge English Corpus It is a melancholy thought, but perhaps those local authorities who did not do so were wiser and moreprescientthan those who did. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 Perhaps nowhere in any of the reports is there a moreprescientwarning. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 In that sense he was right, andprescientabout things to come. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 It would be difficult to improve on that veryprescientstatement. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen 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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