单词	prescient
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 EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS 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 future—prescience noun [uncountable]
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