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Envisage Envision Imagine   [V Consequences Total Nuclear War

英语单词 envisage
英美音标 英 [ɪn'vɪzɪdʒ] 美 [ɪn'vɪzɪdʒ]
中文释义 vt.面对;想像
英语例句 (1) Nobody can envisage the consequences of total nuclear war.
(2) I don't envisage working with him again.
(3) Nobody can envisage the consequences of total nuclear war.
中文例句 (1) 没有人能想像出全面核子战争的后果。
(2) 我想像不出再与他一起工作的可能。
(3) 没有人能想像出全面核子战争的后果。
vocabulary简明 Martin Luther King Jr. envisaged a time when black and white Americans would no longer be segregated by race. To envisage is to imagine something that does not yet exist.
vocabulary扩展 The words envisage and envision share the same Latin root meaning to see. Both words are very similar in meaning but do have slight shades of difference. If you envision something happening, you can see it happening in your mind. I'm sure you can envision yourself graduating from high school! If you envisage something, you can imagine it, but not necessarily see it. You can envisage world peace, but it may be harder to envision it.
柯林斯解释
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[VERB 动词]设想;想象;预想 If you envisage something, you imagine that it is true, real, or likely to happen.
  [V n]
  [V -ing]
  [V n -ing]
  [Also V that]
  • He envisages the possibility of establishing direct diplomatic relations in the future...

    他设想在未来可以建立直接的外交关系。

  • He had never envisaged spending the whole of his working life in that particular job...

    他从没有想象过自己整个职业生涯都要从事那个工作。

  • Personally, I envisage them staying together.

    就我看来,我估计他们会呆在一起。

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