| 单词 | prospect |
| 释义 | prospect (once / 117 pages) 1nv 2n A prospect is the possibility that something fabulous will happen. After you graduate top of your class at Harvard, for example, your job prospects look great. Prospect is from the Latin word prospectus which means a "view or outlook." A prospect is still a way of looking ahead and expecting good things. It's like potential in that it's something that might be but isn't yet. There is also the potential for something bad to happen, but prospects usually look good. In the 1800s, when men in floppy brown hats started saying "There's gold in them there hills!" the noun became a verb — to prospect is to search for gold. Either way, when you have prospects, you have a golden future. WORD FAMILYprospect: prospected, prospecting, prospector, prospects+/prospector: prospectors USAGE EXAMPLESFleeing the prospect of a tough race, Forbes ran in the neighboring Republican district, anchored by Virginia Beach. Washington Post(Jan 02, 2017) "The relatively wide range for the forecast reflects the higher-than-normal degree of uncertainty regarding the prospects for the UK economy next year," he says. BBC(Jan 02, 2017) Despite the very real prospect of a 0-3 start to Big 12 play, Beard is probably right. Washington Times(Jan 02, 2017) 1 1n the possibility of future success his prospects as a writer are excellent Syn|Hyper chance potency, potential, potentiality the inherent capacity for coming into being 2n belief about (or mental picture of) the future Syn|Hypo|Hyper expectation, outlook hope, promise grounds for feeling hopeful about the future foretastean early limited awareness of something yet to occur possibilitya future prospect or potential anticipation, expectancysomething expected (as on the basis of a norm) apprehension, misgivingpainful expectation rainbowan illusory hope life expectancyan expected time to live as calculated on the basis of statistical probabilities belief any cognitive content held as true 3n a prediction of the course of a disease Syn|Hyper medical prognosis, prognosis medical diagnosis identification of a disease from its symptoms 4n someone who is considered for something (for an office or prize or honor etc.) Syn|Hyper candidate individual, mortal, person, somebody, someone, soul a human being 5v search for something desirable prospect a job Hyper look, search search or seek 6v explore for useful or valuable things or substances, such as minerals 2Hyper explore, research, search inquire into n the visual percept of a region Syn|Hypo|Hyper aspect, panorama, scene, view, vista background, ground the part of a scene (or picture) that lies behind objects in the foreground coastthe area within view exposureaspect resulting from the direction a building or window faces foregroundthe part of a scene that is near the viewer glimpsea brief or incomplete view middle distancethe part of a scene between the foreground and the background side viewa view from the side of something tableauany dramatic scene profilean outline of something (especially a human face as seen from one side) visual image, visual percept a percept that arises from the eyes; an image in the visual system |
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