英语词汇“envisage”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

WORD ORIGINenvisage

Origin:

1800-1900 French envisager, from visage; ➔ VISAGE

VERB TABLE

envisage

Simple Form
Present	I, you, we, they	envisage
	he, she, it	envisages
Past	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	envisaged
Present perfect	I, you, we, they	have envisaged
	he, she, it	has envisaged
Past perfect	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	had envisaged
Future	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	will envisage
Future perfect	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	will have envisaged

Continuous Form
Present	I	am envisaging
	he, she, it	is envisaging
	you, we, they	are envisaging
Past	I, he, she, it	was envisaging
	you, we, they	were envisaging
Present perfect	I, you, we, they	have been envisaging
	he, she, it	has been envisaging
Past perfect	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	had been envisaging
Future	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	will be envisaging
Future perfect	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	will have been envisaging

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES

I cannot envisage what the circumstances will be in twenty years' time.
The changes have been greater than we ever envisaged.
We do not envisage a general election for at least another two years.

EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS

Certainly the development of community care did not take place in the way that might have been envisaged.
However, present government statements are envisaging up to 80 percent of households being owner-occupiers.
If she fixed her focus with enough concentration she could envisage the invisible barrier.
It is envisaged that a Deposit Draft will be available in September.
She had never envisaged that they would all be solidly against it.
The Emperor, however, envisaged a city which was not only light and clean but also full of air.
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.

THESAURUS► 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

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 can cause some people to hallucinate.· When I saw the walls moving, I thought I must be hallucinating.

Longman Language Activatorto think you know what is going to happen in the future► foresee

to know that something is going to happen before it actually happens: · No one foresaw the Great Depression of the thirties.· Businesses are alarmed at the costs they foresee in complying with the new rules.foresee that: · Ten years ago she could not have foreseen that her marriage would end in divorce.

► envisage

also envision to have a clear idea of something that will happen in the future, especially important changes in a situation: · I cannot envisage what the circumstances will be in twenty years' time.· Most of those who voted for independence did not envision war as the eventual outcome.· We do not envisage a general election for at least another two years.

► see something coming

to know or think you know what is going to happen because there are signs that it will: · Jason saw the stock market crash coming and sold most of his shares.· Then one day she just walked out -- I suppose I should have seen it coming really.

► feel something in your bones

informal to think that something is going to happen, especially something bad, not for any clear or specific reason, but just because you have a feeling that it will: · The trip's going to be a disaster - I can feel it in my bones.

► have a premonition

to have a strange or unexplainable feeling that something is going to happen, especially something unpleasant: have a premonition (that): · When Paola failed to phone, John had a horrible premonition that she was in danger.have a premonition of: · She shivered suddenly, and I wondered whether she had had a premonition of her own death.

► see into the future

someone who can see into the future has the ability to know what will happen before it happens: · If I could only see into the future and know how this would all end.· Nobody can see into the future, and all stock exchange investment is a gamble.

COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADVERB► also

· The Government also envisages that the same grounds and procedures would apply to off-licence applications.· The participating States also envisage holding future seminars on topics of mutual interest.· Further bilateral and multilateral agreements were also envisaged to ensure that each country's armed forces participated in joint anti-drug initiatives.· However, Griffiths also envisages greater support and encouragement of the voluntary and informal sectors.· An extension into Indiana and a branch to Plainfield and Shorewood are also envisaged.· The law also envisaged the creation of 2,000 labour exchanges.· Griffiths also envisaged a new style and approach.· Their use is also envisaged to evaluate a particular teaching approach, or even for the appraisal of individual teachers.

► as

· For non-professional staff further training was likely to be envisaged as internal courses, or City and Guilds/BEC courses.· The sixth-form course in the City Technology Colleges is envisaged as generally lasting for two years.· They have not always been as humble as Balanchine in submitting to the dictates of the score as envisaged by the composer.

► originally

· The development was originally envisaged as a private enterprise initiative.· If the blocks were truly large, as Corb originally envisaged them, then they could become honeycombed hills.· Indeed George Stephenson originally envisaged the railway system as an extension of the colliery system.· The government probably went further down this road than it had originally envisaged.

NOUN► change

· Things might be difficult for a while but I didn't envisage any radical changes.· This arrangement has proved mutually satisfactory, and Duchy envisage no changes in the immediate future.

► future

· As late as 1915 Masaryk could only envisage a monarchical future for a Bohemian state.· The participating States also envisage holding future seminars on topics of mutual interest.· This was the essence of Marxism, and it envisaged a future which does not work.· The whole business therefore needs to be seen in the broader framework of how you envisage your future.

► plan

· The plans he envisaged included the amenities for local people as well as for the tourists.· The plan envisaged that most of the new Soviet immigrants would find work in the private sector.· The plan envisaged annual growth of 6 percent.· The original plan did not envisage a commercial use, he told Reuter after speaking at the conference.

► system

· Indeed George Stephenson originally envisaged the railway system as an extension of the colliery system.· I can not envisage a system related to ability to pay that does not approximate to income flows.