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foresight

/fawr-sahyt, fohr-/US // ˈfɔrˌsaɪt, ˈfoʊr- //UK // (ˈfɔːˌsaɪt) //

先见之明,预见性,预见,前瞻性

Related Words

insight洞察力,洞见,深入了解,见解prudence审慎,审慎性,谨慎性,谨慎prospect前景,前景展望,展望,前景预测caution警惕,注意事项,注意力,谨慎circumspection慎重考虑,审慎,审慎行事,谨慎行事anticipation预测,预期,预计,预见precognition预知能力,预知性,预知,早知providence天意,天命,天赐良机,旨意foreknowledge预知,预知性,预见性,预知能力discretion自由裁量权,酌情处理,斟酌决定,谨慎premonition预感,预言,预兆,前兆premeditation预谋,预谋的,预设,预谋的结果economy经济,节约,经济性,经济效益perception感知,观念,感知力,感觉forethought深谋远虑,前瞻性思维,前瞻性,深思熟虑preconception预想,预测,预先设想,预想的carefulness细心,谨慎,仔细,谨慎性provision提供,提供服务,提供的,提供的服务care护理,照顾,关注,关心clairvoyance千里眼,预知能力,预言术,预言家

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : care or provision for the future; provident care; prudence.
    • : the act or power of foreseeing; prevision; prescience.
    • : an act of looking forward.
    • : knowledge or insight gained by or as by looking forward; a view of the future.
    • : Surveying. a sight or reading taken on a forward point. a rod reading on a point the elevation of which is to be determined.

Synonyms & Antonyms

nounmental preparedness
Synonyms
insight洞察力,洞见,深入了解,见解prudence审慎,审慎性,谨慎性,谨慎anticipation预测,预期,预计,预见care护理,照顾,关注,关心carefulness细心,谨慎,仔细,谨慎性caution警惕,注意事项,注意力,谨慎circumspection慎重考虑,审慎,审慎行事,谨慎行事clairvoyance千里眼,预知能力,预言术,预言家discernment洞察力,鉴别力,辨别力,鉴别discreetness谨慎性,谨慎,审慎性,慎重discretion自由裁量权,酌情处理,斟酌决定,谨慎economy经济,节约,经济性,经济效益foreknowledge预知,预知性,预见性,预知能力forethought深谋远虑,前瞻性思维,前瞻性,深思熟虑perception感知,观念,感知力,感觉precaution防范措施,预防措施,防范,防备措施precognition预知能力,预知性,预知,早知preconception预想,预测,预先设想,预想的premeditation预谋,预谋的,预设,预谋的结果premonition预感,预言,预兆,前兆prescience预见性,先见之明,前瞻性,先知prospect前景,前景展望,展望,前景预测providence天意,天命,天赐良机,旨意provision提供,提供服务,提供的,提供的服务sagacity卓识,卓有成效,洞察力,卓尔不群canniness罐头,罐装,炮制,胆量far-sightednesslong-sightednessprenotion前言,前提,前提是,前提是要

Examples

  • When districts make decisions and just hand them down to schools with no foresight into what it will look like on the ground, it’s extremely frustrating.

  • With a little foresight, managers can calm the waves of conflict before they crest and crash.

  • While it sounds simple, rolling out a no-meeting policy takes foresight and planning as well as bearing in mind that how employees communicate is part of your corporate culture too.

  • When the company was still small, perhaps such a lack of foresight and imagination could be excused.

  • Still, it’s a balancing act, Wallace said, pointing to “the need for reflection in conjunction with foresight.”

  • What would McCain have done if he were president and had the foresight about the ISIS that he now claims?

  • Knowing almost nothing of football, he had the random foresight to examine the Steeler legend's brain.

  • Natural selection is a mechanical process with no foresight, which can only blindly favor short-term gain.

  • The Panglossian view of natural selection is an appealing idea to us as human beings, you argue, because brains have foresight.

  • It is a shame that those organizing the march did not show more foresight.

  • Do not suffer yourselves to be persuaded that measures of foresight are always followed by disasters.

  • Such can live many lives; while a Thoreau can live but one, and that only with perpetual foresight.

  • But this foresight can scarcely belong to His glory, nor spare Him the reproaches which men could legitimately heap upon Him.

  • The faculty of foresight, or the ability to know in advance all which is to happen in the world, is attributed to God.

  • A God of foresight would prevent evil, and in this way would be saved the trouble of punishing it.

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