foresee
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++LDOCE 5++fore·see /fɔːˈsiː $ fɔːr-/ ●○○ verb (past tense foresaw /-ˈsɔː $ -ˈsɒː/, past participle foreseen /-ˈsiːn/) [transitive] PREDICTto think or know that something is going to happen in the future 预知；预见，预料 → predict I’ve put your name on the list and I don’t foresee any problems. 我把你的名字写在名单上了，估计不会有什么问题。 The disaster could not have been foreseen. 这场灾难是始料未及的。foresee that Few analysts foresaw that oil prices would rise so steeply. 分析家大多没有预料到油价会如此大幅度地上涨。foresee what/how etc No one foresaw what he was planning. 没有人事先知道他有什么打算。► see thesaurus at predict→ See Verb table
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foresee• Yet it is hard to see what violence the police foresaw as direct and immediate.• The only serious potential obstacle to the plan foreseen at the time was litigation by employer and union groups.• Everything she had foreseen had come true.• Scientists foresee humans living on Mars within the next 200 years.• Businesses are alarmed at the costs they foresee in complying with the new rules.• Ten years ago she could not have foreseen that her marriage would end in divorce.• None had foreseen the assumption of absolute power by one of their own number.• No one foresaw the Great Depression of the thirties.• As the General had so clearly foreseen, there was no way out.• No wonder the men failed to foresee what a forceful leader she would be.foresee what/how etc• No wonder the men failed to foresee what a forceful leader she would be.• In my wildest imaginings, I could not have foreseen what a wonderful life lay before me.• Even so, few foresaw how far and how fast the autonomy system would develop.• The producer should reasonably foresee what might be done with the goods, such as predictable misuse by a child.• She had never killed before: in her heart, she foresaw what she had missed.• I am not going to attempt today to foresee what that price will be.• Her heart wits so heavy when she bade him farewell it was as if she foresaw what was to come.• Why could he not have foreseen what we see now?fore·see verbChineseSyllable
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foresee
fore‧see /fɔːˈsiː $ fɔːr-/
verb (past tense foresaw /-ˈsɔː $ -ˈsɒː/, past participle foreseen /-ˈsiːn/) [transitive]
to think or know that something is going to happen in the future ⇨ predict:
I’ve put your name on the list and I don’t foresee any problems.
The disaster could not have been foreseen.
foresee that
Few analysts foresaw that oil prices would rise so steeply.
foresee what/how etc
No one foresaw what he was planning.
▪ predict to say that something will happen, before it happens: In the future, it may be possible to predict earthquakes. | Scientists are trying to predict what the Amazon will look like in 20 years' time.
▪forecast to say what is likely to happen in the future, especially in relation to the weather or the economic or political situation: They’re forecasting a hard winter. | Economists forecast that there would be a recession.
▪project to say what the amount, size, cost etc of something is likely to be in the future, using the information you have now: The world’s population is projected to rise by 45%.
▪can say especially spoken be able to know what will happen in the future: No one can say what the next fifty years will bring. | I can’t say exactly how much it will cost.
▪foretell to say correctly what will happen in the future, using special religious or magical powers: The woman claimed that she had the gift of foretelling the future. | It all happened as the prophet had foretold.
▪prophesy to say that something will happen because you feel that it will, or by using special religious or magical powers: He’s one of those people who are always prophesying disaster. | The coming of a great Messiah is prophesied in the Bible. | He prophesied that the world would end in 2012. | Marx prophesied that capitalism would destroy itself.
▪foresee to know that something is going to happen before it happens: They should have foreseen these problems. | No one foresaw the outcome of the war.
▪have a premonition to have a strange feeling that something is about to happen, especially something bad, usually just before it happens: Suddenly I had a strange premonition of danger ahead.
fore‧see /fɔːˈsiː $ fɔːr-/
verb (past tense foresaw /-ˈsɔː $ -ˈsɒː/, past participle foreseen /-ˈsiːn/) [transitive]to think or know that something is going to happen in the future ⇨ predict:
foresee that
foresee what/how etc
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