| 单词 | prospect |
| 释义 | pros·pect I. 1. < their prospect was toward the south — Ezek 40: 44 (Authorized Version) > 2. a. (1) < here, just above 1000 feet above sea level, our prospect embraces a dozen counties — S.W.Wooldridge > (2) < on a nearer prospect, all the circumstance of greatness vanished into shadow — A.C.Benson > b. < God beholding from his prospect high — John Milton > c. < climbing onto a huge block of stone, began gazing at the wide prospect spread out before me — W.H.Hudson †1922 > d. archaic < a prospect of Yale College in New Haven, neatly engraved — Boston Evening Post > 3. obsolete < it were a tedious difficulty … to bring them to that prospect — Shakespeare > 4. a. < its later development justified his prospect of its future value > b. < attracted by the fascination of discovery and the prospect of spiritual conquest — American Guide Series: Minnesota > c. < air-conditioned cars are a happy prospect for some commuters — Collier's Year Book > < her sadness at the small prospect of seeing him again, old as she was — Archibald Marshall > d. prospects plural (1) < as a young man with prospects he married the girl — Dixon Wecter > < without any prospects in the world except those which he could make for himself — R.W.Southern > (2) < improved corn prospects in other areas — Wall Street Journal > 5. a. b. c. (1) (2) 6. a. < called on ten prospects but failed to make a sale > b. < a good prospect for the Supreme Court > < the coach has come up with several fine prospects for the team > • - in prospect II. intransitive verb 1. a. < prospecting for gold > < prospecting for uranium > b. < fat robins prospecting in the spaded earth of the flower beds — John & Ward Hawkins > 2. < this ore prospects well > transitive verb 1. a. b. 2. < cautiously prospected the highway — John Buchan > < today the principal tools for prospecting the brain are electrical — G.W.Gray b. 1886 > |
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