| 单词 | foretell |
| 释义 | fore·tell transitive verb 1. 2. obsolete intransitive verb obsolete Synonyms: < some sorcerer … had foretold — Alfred Tennyson > < the marvelous exactness with which eclipses are foretold — K.K.Darrow > predict is closely synonymous with foretell; it may be preferred in today's English to suggest or apply to inference from facts and laws of nature < if we can trace certain changes slowly at work in the period preceding our own we may be able to predict with some probability that these changes will continue for some time at least to operate in the same direction — W.R.Inge > < astronomers, who developed mathematics to such a degree that it could predict the wanderings of the planets and their satellites — K.K.Darrow > forecast may suggest concomitant anticipation, consideration of effects, and provision for one's needs < he forecast the war, announced in his message the intention to put the state militia on a war footing — Encyc. Americana > prophesy may imply mystic inspiration, real or pretended, supernatural machinery, or august or pontifical assurance < ancestral voices prophesying war — S.T.Coleridge > < professional astrologists make a practice of prophesying the presidency for budding statesmen — S.H.Adams > prognosticate may indicate learned or skilled use of symptoms and signs; it is applicable to a physician's procedure < prognosticating a quick recovery > < the slight moisture resolved itself into a monotonous smiting of earth by heaven, in torrents to which no end could be prognosticated — Thomas Hardy > augur may indicate foreknowing the future by interpreting omens; used in relation to things and conditions, it indicates presentation as an omen of good or evil < the morrow brought a very sober-looking morning; the sun making only a few efforts to appear; and Catherine augured from it everything most favorable to her wishes — Jane Austen > presage and portend, the latter usually used of evil things or adverse developments, may apply to foreshadowing or suggesting a coming event or indicating its likelihood, sometimes by occult procedures < they think that the sight of a meteor presages some misfortune — J.G.Frazer > < the yellow and vapory sunset … had presaged change — Thomas Hardy > < all the signs, the position of the stars, and the very disposition of nature portended war and disaster > < the appearance of these spectral flames, it is claimed, is not exclusively confined to portending the demise of someone already ill — Irish Digest > forebode indicates a feeling, indefinable, perhaps ill-based, but insistent and worrisome, or an indication calling forth worrisome or dread feeling < his heart forebodes a mystery — Alfred Tennyson > bode applies to indication of future probability, often indefinite and often dire < an eternal nightmare which, even for the richest and safest of nations, bodes catastrophes — A.L.Guérard > < the mood of quiet, grim resolution which here prevails bodes ill for those who conspired and collaborated to murder world peace — F.D.Roosevelt > < the dynamics of social change, which is foreboded in the emotional tensions of individuals — Franz Alexander > |
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