envisage
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++LDOCE 5++en·vis·age /ɪnˈvɪzɪdʒ/ ●○○ verb [transitive] PREDICTto think that something is likely to happen in the future 展望；设想 The scheme cost a lot more than we had originally envisaged. 该计划的花费大大超出了我们最初所预想的数额。envisage doing something I don’t envisage working with him again. 我想象不出有再和他共事的可能。► see thesaurus at imagine→ See Verb table
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envisage• The changes have been greater than we ever envisaged.• Certainly the development of community care did not take place in the way that might have been envisaged.• The Emperor, however, envisaged a city which was not only light and clean but also full of air.• We do not envisage a general election for at least another two years.• The law itself envisages a number of phases in the settlement of the Burgundians.• The picturesque view, which envisages life as art, took a long time to die.• It is envisaged that a Deposit Draft will be available in September.• She had never envisaged that they would all be solidly against it.• If she fixed her focus with enough concentration she could envisage the invisible barrier.• However, present government statements are envisaging up to 80 percent of households being owner-occupiers.• I cannot envisage what the circumstances will be in twenty years' time.Origin envisage (1800-1900) French envisager, from visage; → VISAGEen·vis·age verbChineseSyllable
that Corpus in happen is likely something to think to
envisage
en‧vis‧age /ɪnˈvɪzɪdʒ/
verb [transitive]to think that something is likely to happen in the future:
The scheme cost a lot more than we had originally envisaged.
envisage doing something
I don’t envisage working with him again.
▪ imagine to form a picture or idea in your mind about what something might be like: When I think of Honolulu, I imagine long white beaches and palm trees. | I can’t really imagine being a millionaire.
▪visualize to form a picture of someone or something in your mind, especially something that is definitely going to happen or exist in the future: Anna visualized meeting Greg again at the airport. | The finished house may be hard to visualize.
▪picture to form a clear picture of something or someone in your mind: I can still picture my father, even though he died a long time ago. | The town was just how she had pictured it from his description.
▪envisage /ɪnˈvɪzɪdʒ/ especially British English, envision to imagine something as possible or likely to happen in the future: How do you envisage your career developing over the next ten years? | They had envisioned the creation of a single armed force, small but efficient.
▪conceive of something formal to imagine a situation, especially one that is difficult to imagine: For many people, music is so important that they cannot conceive of life without it.
▪fantasize to imagine something exciting that you would like to happen, but that is very unlikely to happen: I used to fantasize about becoming a film star.
▪daydream to imagine pleasant things, so that you forget where you are and what you should be doing: Mark began to daydream, and didn’t even hear the teacher’s question.
▪hallucinate to imagine that you are seeing things that are not really there, especially because you are ill or have taken drugs: The drug that can cause some people to hallucinate. | When I saw the walls moving, I thought I must be hallucinating.
en‧vis‧age /ɪnˈvɪzɪdʒ/
verb [transitive]to think that something is likely to happen in the future: envisage doing something
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imagine to form an idea in your mind of what sb/sth might be like 指想象、设想 ：◆ The house was just as she had imagined it. 这房子正如她所想象的。 think to imagine sth that might happen or might have happened 指猜想、想象、试想 ：◆ We couldn't think where you'd gone. 我们猜想不出来你到哪里去了。 ◆ Just think —this time tomorrow we'll be lying on a beach.想想看，明天这个时候我们就躺在海滩上了。 see to consider sth as a future possibility; to imagine sb as sth 指设想、想象 ：◆ I can't see her changing her mind. 我无法想象她会改变主意。 ◆ His colleagues see him as a future director. 他的同事认为他很可能是未来的负责人。 envisage ( to imagine what will happen in the futureespecially
BrE 指想象、设想、展望 ：◆ I don't envisage working with him again. 我想象不出再与他一起工作的可能。 NOTE The usual word for this in American English isenvision (see below).在美式英语中，这一意义常用 envision（见下文）。 envision to imagine what a situation will be like in the future, especially a situation that you intend to work towards 指展望、想象 ：◆ They envision an equal society, free from poverty and disease. 他们向往一个没有贫穷和疾病的平等社会。 NOTE Envision is used especially in business and political contexts. In North American English it is also used as another form of the wordenvisage .* envision 尤用于商业和政治语境，在美式英语中亦作 envisage 的另一种形式 ：◆ I don't envision working with him again. 我想象不出再与他一起工作的可能。
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to imagine/see/envisage/envision sb/sth as sthto imagine/see/envisage/envision (sb) doing sth to imagine/think/see/envisage/envision who/what/how… to imagine/think/envisage/envision that…