英语释义

1. to see (something, such as a development) beforehand
He could not have foreseen the consequences of his actions. She foresaw the company's potential and invested early on.

2. to see or become aware of (something that has not yet happened)

3. to see or know about beforehand
I didn't foresee the accident.

4. to be aware of the reasonable possibility of (as an occurrence or development) beforehand

片语

foresee foresaw foreseen预见

As The Psalmist Foresaw正如诗人所预见

I foresaw this need我预见到了需要这

We Foresaw All This我们预料到这点

英汉例句

• THE first of Laurence Smith’s two weddings was meant to take place in the midwinter snow not far south of the Arctic Circle. The second foresaw balmy blue skies in Palm Springs, California.

  劳伦斯?史密斯的第一次婚姻是注定了要在离北极圈南部不远的冰天雪地里举行，第二次则很有预见性的定在加州棕泉市，蓝天白云，情意盎然。

• The government, which never foresaw such an eventuality, seems unsure.

  政府从来没有预料到这种可能发生的情况，对此似乎也没有把握。

• The Internet「s original designers never foresaw that the academic and military research network they created would one day bear the burden of carrying all the world」s communications and commerce.

  互联网的原始设计者从未预见到他们创造的最初用做学术和军事研究的网络，有一天会承担全球所有的通信和商业任务。

• In the THIRD WAVE, the Tofflers foresaw that advanced societies would no longer be content to see humankind as the pinnacle of evolution.

  在《第三次浪潮》中，托夫勒夫妇预见到发展到高级阶段的社会不再满足于把人类作为进化的巅峰。

• Mr Brinkley has an eye for both the telling detail and the broad sweep of Luce「s role as the man who saw the need for a national news magazine and foresaw the American century.

  布林·克里先生既关注细节又注重全面，描写了鲁斯其人发现了全国性新闻杂志的需求，预见到美国世纪的到来。

• If Mr Obama truly meant, as he said, to liberalise abortion rules from his first day in office, Father Neuhaus foresaw an intensification of the culture wars at every level of American life.

  纽豪斯神父预言，如果奥巴马先生如自己所说，从上任第一天起使堕胎规则自由化，那么美国生活中每一层面上的文化战争都将激化。

• Much of the surge in raw-material prices in recent years reflects the fact that few foresaw the pace of emerging-market growth.

  实际上，原材料价格近几年的飞涨也是新兴市场发展超过多数人预期的结果。

• The reasons almost no one saw September 2008 coming (many people foresaw the subprime crisis of August 2007) was that it required three types of knowledge.

  几乎没有人预测到2008年9月份（那场金融海啸）到来（许多人却预测到了2007年8月份发生的次贷危机），因为预测该事件需要三种知识结构。

• The 2006 QDR already foresaw that America had to deal with a range of crises, and Mr Gates」s review only tinkers with America「s military structure.

  2006年版的QDR已经预见到美国必须应付一系列的危机，而盖茨先生的此份报告不过是对美国的军事结构进行了一些拙劣的修补。

• Huntington correctly foresaw that the Arab strongman regimes were fragile and were threatened by the masses of unemployed young men.

  亨廷顿準确地预测到阿拉伯的强人政权是脆弱的，受到大量的失业年轻人的威胁。

• She foresaw "a single Internet where all of humanity has equal access to knowledge and ideas.

  她预见了「一个所有人都可平等获取知识和观念的独立的国际互联网」。

• Some warned of a housing bubble, but almost none foresaw the resulting cataclysm.

  也有些学者曾经警告人们有房市泡沫，然而几乎没有人预料到这个灾难性的结果。

• Daniel foresaw this stuff writing way back in the year 580.

  但以理在580年前，预见了这些。

• In late 2008, Mattel foresaw that sales would plunge in 2009 and introduced a clench-jawed cost-cutting campaign called Global cost Leadership.

  2008年底，美泰预见到2009年的销售额将大幅下挫，启动了严格的成本削减(即全球成本领先)计划。

• For the first time in many years, Americans foresaw a president who would mobilize the nation to greatness.

  许多年以来的头一次，美国人预见了一位可以动员全国人民一起走向繁荣的总统。

• Continuing on the topic of community involvement Eckels was asked if he ever foresaw the stewardship of Pulse being transferred to the Eclipse foundation as an impartial steward.

  继续牵连社区的话题，Eckel被问及他是否曾经预见Pulse的管理工作正被转移到Eclipse基金会(作为公正管理者)的身上。

• One of Defense Secretary Robert Gates」s arguments in favor of congressional repeal was that he foresaw a judgment by courts overturning the law.

  国防部长罗伯特·盖茨赞成国会废除该议案的理由之一是，他预料到了法院将推翻该法律的判决。

• It governs the behaviour of subatomic particles zipping around powerful accelerators at close to the speed of light and its equations foresaw the conversion of mass into energy in nuclear bombs.

  该理论掌握了亚原子粒子在强大的加速器的作用下可以达到接近光速的速度这一表现行为。相对论的公式也预见了核弹中质(量)能(量)转换的现象。

• This belief persisted despite Goldman's insistence that it neither foresaw the housing collapse nor positioned itself to benefit from it.

  尽管高盛坚称并未预见到住房市场会崩盘，自己也未从中获益，但上述观点并未因此而削弱。

• As he foresaw ruin, he grew manic, greeting his bankers on one occasion in yellow silk pajamas and a purple silk dressing gown.

  由于预见到了自己的失败，他变得疯疯癫癫；有时他会穿着黄色丝绸睡衣和紫色丝绸女士礼服与银行家们见面寒暄。

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