| 单词 | foreseeable future |
| 释义 | > as lemmasforeseeable future That may be foreseen. Frequently in foreseeable future. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > expectation > foresight, foreknowledge > [adjective] > that may be foreseen or foreknown foreknowable1678 foreseeable1804 the world > time > relative time > the future or time to come > [noun] > the near or forseeable future tomorrow?c1425 paulo-post-future1848 foreseeable future1932 soon1940 1804 Ann. Rev. & Hist. Lit. 1803 2 367 A rise and a fall foreseeable. 1840 J. S. Mill Bentham in Diss. & Disc. (1859) I. 387 The morality of an action depends on its foreseeable consequences. 1932 Nation June 613 The population problem..does not seem likely to be solved in the foreseeable future. 1958 Spectator 22 Aug. 241/3 Nobody is going, within the fore~seeable future, to lay a finger on the trade unions. 1959 Cambr. Rev. 2 May 469/1 I cannot picture fewer motorists in the city during the foreseeable future. 1965 New Statesman 30 Apr. 672/3 The sad fact is that, in the readily foreseeable future, governments have to persuade us to ration ourselves to one child each on the average. < as lemmas |
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