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Premonition Friend Feeling Bad Latin 英 ˌpriːmə'Nɪʃn] 美 ˌpriːmə'Nɪʃn

英语单词 premonition
英美音标 英 [ˌpriːmə'nɪʃn] 美 [ˌpriːmə'nɪʃn]
中文释义 n.(不祥的)预感
英语例句 (1) He had a premonition of impending doom.
(2) The day before her accident, she had a premonition of danger.
中文例句 (1) 他有一种不祥的预感。
(2) 在发生事故的前一天,她有一种会发生危险的预感。
vocabulary简明 Some people claim to have premonitions, such as a dream about a friend they haven't seen in years the night before the friend dies. A premonition is a warning that comes in advance, or a feeling that something is going to happen.
vocabulary扩展 Like the synonym foreboding, a premonition usually refers to something bad or harmful. This noun is from Middle French premonicion, from Late Latin praemonitio, from Latin praemonere "to warn in advance," from the prefix prae- "before" plus monere "to warn."
柯林斯解释
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[N-COUNT 可数名词](通常指不祥的)预感,预兆 If you have a premonition, you have a feeling that something is going to happen, often something unpleasant.
  • He had an unshakable premonition that he would die.

    他有一种强烈的预感,觉得自己会死。

  • ...a real, genuine premonition of bad news.

    对坏消息真切的预感

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