envisaging
present participle ofenvisage
| 单词 | envisaging |
| 释义 | envisaging present participle ofenvisage envisage verb[T] formaluk/ɪnˈvɪz.ɪdʒ/us/ɪnˈvɪz.ɪdʒ/(USalsoenvision)C1 toimagineorexpectsomething in thefuture,especiallysomething good: Trainfareincreasesof 15percentare envisaged for the nextyear. [+ that]It's envisagedthatbuildingwillstartat the end of thisyear. [+ -ing verb]When do you envisagefinishingtheproject? [+ question word]It's hard to envisagehowit mighthappen. toformamentalpictureof something or someone you have neverseen: He wasn't what I'dexpected- I'd envisaged someone muchtaller. to imagine something
Predicting things and intuition
Examplesofenvisagingenvisaging 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 difficultyenvisagingor talking about their futures. From theCambridge English Corpus Presumably, we areenvisaginga situation in which the government will ban reliance on seniority. From theCambridge English Corpus Envisaginga neutral, ahistoric bond is nave because national identity always i co-exists in relation to other projects. From theCambridge English Corpus On the basis of this experience we areenvisagingnew applications of the algorithm in the area of demand aggregation. From theCambridge English Corpus Within two generations, urban reformers would beenvisagingthe construction of idealized semi-rural environments consciously distanced from the hurlyburly of production and exchange. From theCambridge English Corpus How should historians go aboutenvisagingsuch a definition? From theCambridge English Corpus Thus, the architect's criticism (of the world) does not end with description, the real task isenvisagingand articulating an alternative. From theCambridge English Corpus The second was the apocalypticenvisagingof the rise, degeneration and fall of civilisations as propounded in the writings of both scholarly and popularising twentieth-century metahistorians. From theCambridge English Corpus Physical complexity, on the other hand, can be such that the conventional solutions,envisagingjoint consumption and use, are inadequate means of aligning effectively the institutional devices with physical reality. From theCambridge English Corpus Envisagingthe 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). From theCambridge English Corpus Such anenvisagingmight 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. From theCambridge English Corpus He is notenvisaginga many-valued logic. From theCambridge English Corpus Therefore, we must be able to withstand a long war, as well asenvisaginga short, horrible nuclear exchange that would end with mutual devastation. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 I do not think the imagination of any normal person need be unduly strained inenvisagingthe situation that would then present iteslf. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 We now appear to beenvisaginga 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 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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