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predictable adj.可预知的 (1) 生活唯一可预知的便是它的不可预知性。(2) 春天的温带地区，气温每天都变化不定，但是日照长度却以一个可预知的数量稳步增加。 When she got out the fine china early in Act I, you could just tell the stuff would be smashed in Act III. It was all too predictable. Given the facts of their lives, the end of their relationship was predictable: he was married, and so was she, but not to each other. The roots of the word are fun to analyze: pre- means "before," dict means "to say," and able means, well, "able." Put them together, and you'll see that predictable means "able to be said before (it happens)" or, simply, something you know of before it happens.

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英 [prɪ'dɪktəbl] 美 [prɪ'dɪktəbl] (1) The only thing predictable about life is its unpredictability.(2) In the temperate zone in spring, temperatures fluctuate greatly from day to day, but day length increases steadily by a predictable amount. If you can predict it, I predict you'll call it predictable. In other words, anything that you can see or know before it happens is predictable. 1[ADJ-GRADED 能被表示程度的副词或介词词组修饰的形容词]可预言的；可预测的；可预料的 If you say that an event is predictable, you mean that it is obvious in advance that it will happen. This was a predictable reaction, given the bitter hostility between the two countries...考虑到这两个国家之间激烈的敌对情绪，这种反应是可以预见的。The result was entirely predictable.这个结果完全在预料之中。predictablyHis article is, predictably, a scathing attack on capitalism...可想而知，他的文章是对资本主义的严厉抨击。The central London hospitals have reacted predictably.伦敦各主要医院的反应皆在预料之中。predictabilityYour mother values the predictability of your Sunday calls.你妈妈非常重视你每周日打给她的电话。

英语单词	predictable
英美音标	英 [prɪ'dɪktəbl] 美 [prɪ'dɪktəbl]
中文释义	adj.可预知的
英语例句	(1) The only thing predictable about life is its unpredictability. (2) In the temperate zone in spring, temperatures fluctuate greatly from day to day, but day length increases steadily by a predictable amount.
中文例句	(1) 生活唯一可预知的便是它的不可预知性。 (2) 春天的温带地区，气温每天都变化不定，但是日照长度却以一个可预知的数量稳步增加。
vocabulary简明	If you can predict it, I predict you'll call it predictable. In other words, anything that you can see or know before it happens is predictable.
vocabulary扩展	When she got out the fine china early in Act I, you could just tell the stuff would be smashed in Act III. It was all too predictable. Given the facts of their lives, the end of their relationship was predictable: he was married, and so was she, but not to each other. The roots of the word are fun to analyze: pre- means "before," dict means "to say," and able means, well, "able." Put them together, and you'll see that predictable means "able to be said before (it happens)" or, simply, something you know of before it happens.
柯林斯解释	1 [ADJ-GRADED 能被表示程度的副词或介词词组修饰的形容词]可预言的；可预测的；可预料的 If you say that an event is predictable, you mean that it is obvious in advance that it will happen. This was a predictable reaction, given the bitter hostility between the two countries... 考虑到这两个国家之间激烈的敌对情绪，这种反应是可以预见的。 The result was entirely predictable. 这个结果完全在预料之中。 predictably His article is, predictably, a scathing attack on capitalism... 可想而知，他的文章是对资本主义的严厉抨击。 The central London hospitals have reacted predictably. 伦敦各主要医院的反应皆在预料之中。 predictability Your mother values the predictability of your Sunday calls. 你妈妈非常重视你每周日打给她的电话。

Predictable Means Day Predict Act Predictability 英 Prɪ'Dɪktəbl] 美