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单词 envisage
释义
envisage
verb[T]
formal
uk
/ɪnˈvɪz.ɪdʒ/us
/ɪnˈvɪz.ɪdʒ/
(USalsoenvision)
C1
toimagineorexpectsomething in thefuture,especiallysomething good:
设想；展望，预计
Trainfareincreasesof 15percentare envisaged for the nextyear.预计明年火车票价将会上涨15%。
[+ that]It's envisagedthatbuildingwillstartat the end of thisyear.预计大楼将在今年年底动工。
[+ -ing verb]When do you envisagefinishingtheproject?你预计工程什么时候竣工？
[+ question word]It's hard to envisagehowit mighthappen.真是难以设想怎么会发生这种事情。
toformamentalpictureof something or someone you have neverseen:
想象
He wasn't what I'dexpected- I'd envisaged someone muchtaller.他和我所期待的不一样——想象中他的个头应该高得多。
Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples
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.
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SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Predicting things and intuition
  • augur
  • augury
  • bellwether
  • betcha
  • bode
  • far-sighted
  • instinct
  • intuit
  • intuition
  • intuitive
  • intuitively
  • prescience
  • prescient
  • prophecy
  • prophesy
  • prophetic
  • psychic
  • second-guess
  • the writing is on the wallidiom
  • visionary
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(Definition ofenvisagefrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofenvisage

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It is also possible toenvisage, on the basis of the labyrinthine architecture, multiple pathways through which this could occur.
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Furthermore, it is difficult toenvisagea similar mechanism in the case of extraversion.
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To envision indicates not simply to visualize, but also toenvisage, to apply specific mental frames and epistemological categories.
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As research shows here and elsewhere, children of the elite - envisaged by colonial authorities as future leaders of ' friendly ' (ex) colonies - often resisted attending school.
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The first step envisages the attachment of a subpopulation of proproteins to the aforementioned binding proteins in the membrane.
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In this respect on-far m research shouldenvisageas many trial replications as affordable, especially when it comes to the assessment of technically oriented trials.
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The caregiving relationships it envisages are thus hierarchical, unequal, and premised on adults speaking for children.
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Thus, this complex gene structure and organization could be envisaged as a strategy to regulate gene expression, designed by a parasite lacking transcriptional regulation mechanisms.
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Initially it was envisaged that this book would offer possible solutions for the transformation of children's services.
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Two volumes, which will provide a systematic treatment of the subject, are envisaged, of which this is the first.
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We envisaged a family of configurations in which the thickness 2h of the film tended to zero.
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However, much less thought seems to have been given to how to transform the current system into the system envisaged by the reform.
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He envisages an isomorphism between perceptual experience as described by the observer and the observations of the natural scientist.
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Although the composer envisaged smaller forces and an electronic instrument, the piece loses nothing by its present expansion.
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The outer site, weenvisage, may last much longer than the inner, as the masterplan is likely to take 25 years to complete.
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