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prescient

/presh-uhnt, ‐ee-uhnt pree-shuhnt, ‐shee-uhnt/US // ˈprɛʃ ənt, ‐i ənt ˈpri ʃənt, ‐ʃi ənt //

前瞻性,前瞻性的,预见性,先知先觉

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adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : having prescience, or knowledge of things or events before they exist or happen; having foresight: The prescient economist was one of the few to see the financial collapse coming.

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Examples

  • Nowhere was this more true, or more prescient, than on a farm in Santa Rita do Sapucaí, Brazil.

  • Yes, this game was released in 2001, and was that prescient.

  • Looking back, Elden’s decisions may appear both responsible and prescient.

  • A few months ago, a news report of a couple from Quebec fleeing covid-19 for a small town in the Yukon made this an oddly prescient story.

  • What might have seemed laughably shortsighted at the time was actually prescient.

  • In fact, the original Burroughs books possess a clear “green” streak that now seems quite prescient.

  • Head of State was prescient, but hollow; I Think I Love My Wife was bland; and the documentary Good Hair was fascinating fun.

  • What is striking about the novel when read today, however, is its prescient embrace of technology.

  • You spoke out against the Iraq War early on, which was pretty prescient.

  • If she runs in 2016, her prescient advocacy for early-childhood education might be peaking at just the right time.

  • The prescient Bishop, however, had provided fresh robes, and a circlet of gold was made to do duty for a crown.

  • Meanwhile, the prescient shadow of the coming "boom" had stolen over the hills and the work of the Guard had grown rapidly.

  • "But I'm afraid we can't ask the Merridews back, as we ought," she said, once more socially prescient.

  • A guy with a dream—or perhaps a prescient glimpse of his own future.

  • He ruled over lands, and was of all men wisest and prescient of the future.