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单词 prescience
释义
prescientpre‧sci‧ent /ˈpresiənt $ ˈpreʃənt, ˈpriː-/ adjective formal Word Origin
WORD ORIGINprescient
Origin:
1600-1700 Latin present participle of praescire ‘to know before’
Examples
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  • Howes thought it a prescient occasion.
  • In the wake of the Los Angeles riots, it would be foolish to ignore Galbraith's prescient warnings.
  • That he insisted I drive him showed that my decision not to keep the jeep with me was prescient.
  • That passage appeared prescient when the disastrous wreck on the Scillies scuttled four warships.
  • The parting between the two great composers was poignantly prescient.
  • They proved to be prescient on both counts.
able to imagine or know what will happen in the futureprescience noun [uncountable]
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