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Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary fore·see DATE before 12th century : to see (as a development) beforehand Synonyms. foresee , foreknow , divine , anticipate mean to know beforehand. foresee implies nothing about how the knowledge is derived and may apply to ordinary reasoning and experience economists should have foreseen the recession foreknow usually implies supernatural assistance, as through revelation if only we could foreknow our own destinies divine adds to foresee the suggestion of exceptional wisdom or discernment was able to divine Europe's rapid recovery from the war anticipate implies taking action about or responding emotionally to something before it happens the waiter anticipated our every need English Etymology foresee O.E. forseon "have a premonition," from fore- "before" + seon"to see, see ahead." Foresight is from c.1300. Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary-牛津双解-OALD7 foresee fore·see / fC:5si:; NAmE fC:r5si: / verb (fore·saw / fC:5sC:; NAmE fC:r5sC: / , fore·seen / fC:5si:n; NAmEfC:r5si:n / ) to think sth is going to happen in the future; to know about sth before it happens 预料；预见；预知 SYN predict :
▪ [VN] We do not foresee any problems. 我们预料不会出任何问题。 The extent of the damage could not have been foreseen. 损害的程度是无法预见到的。 ▪ [V (that)] No one could have foreseen (that) things would turn out this way. 谁都没有预料到事情的结果会这样。 ▪ [V wh-] It is impossible to foresee how life will work out. 不可能预知生命将如何发展。 ▪ [also VN -ing] ⇨ compare unforeseen Oxford Collocations Dictionary for Students of English foresee verb ADV. clearly | reasonably He could not reasonably have foreseen the consequences. VERB + FORESEE can/could We could foresee no difficulties with these proposals. | be difficult to, be impossible to It is impossible to foresee the future. Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Thesaurus-11th Edition v. Function: verb to know or expect in advance that something will happen or come into existence or be made manifest FF1C;he had not foreseen his present problemsFF1E; Synonyms: anticipate, apprehend, divine, forefeel, foreknow, preknow, previse, prevision, see, visualize Related Words: forebode, forecast, foretell, predict, presage, prognosticate, prophesy; descry, discern, espy, perceive Idioms: look for, look forward to Webster's Third New International Dictionary, Unabridged fore·see \(ˈ)fōrˈsē, (ˈ)fȯr-, (ˈ)fōəˈ-, (ˈ)fȯ(ə)ˈ-\ verb Etymology: Middle English forseen, foreseen, from Old English foresēon, from fore- + sēon to see — more at see transitive verb 1. : to see (as a future occurrence or development) as certain or unavoidable : look forward to with assurance < should have foreseen the risk of economic collapse > < surely you can foresee what will happen next > 2. obsolete : to provide especially for or against 3. obsolete : to see, interview, or consider beforehand intransitive verb obsolete : to have or exercise foresight Synonyms: foresee , foreknow , divine , apprehend , anticipate can mean to know or prophesy a future event or have knowledge of something prior to its manifestation. foresee in itself gives no hint of how the knowledge is derived or prophecy arrived at < I had not foreseen the black depths of loneliness — Francis Stuart > < our failure to foresee all future problems — Vera M. Dean > foreknow , stressing the prior knowledge, usu., though not always, implies supernatural powers or the assistance of them, as divine revelation < he cannot, however, foreknow how his opponent will behave in action — A.J.Toynbee > < they were willing to say that God foreknows the sin of those who are not elected to salvation — K.S.Latourette > divine , often indistinguishable from foresee , frequently suggests a gift, the assistance of a special power, or unusual discernment < the military genius is the general who repeatedly succeeds in divining the unpredictable by guesswork or intuition — A.J.Toynbee > < impossible for him to divine the complexity and subtlety of these abstract mathematical ideas which were waiting for discovery — A.N.Whitehead > < whose talents for divining news and coordinating its coverage remain a matter of perpetual awe — Gladwin Hill > apprehend often implies somewhat less certainty of what is foreseen than the previous words but a stronger emotional effect of the advance knowledge or the suspicion, often suggesting especially a certain anxiety or dread < she apprehended, not without good cause, that his kingdom might soon be extended to her frontiers — T.B.Macaulay > < his lips quivered, and she apprehended rather than heard what he said — Ellen Glasgow > anticipate suggests an action of some kind in relation or seeming relation to the thing foreseen or prophesied, as the formulation of an historical hypothesis that makes the future event reasonable or seemingly inevitable, or an experiencing of prior joy or pain on account of the thing foreseen, or an interrelated move as one that forestalls, aggravates, or is motivated by the thing foreseen < his leadership in the state has consisted of anticipating the thinking of the major groups of voters and following what he believes to be public opinion — Frank Tollman > < to anticipate charity by preventing poverty — Theodore Bienenstok > < sometimes we are able to anticipate a news event … but more often than not news breaks without any warning — S.W.Rumsam > < to anticipate the arrival of the next attack — H.G.Wells > |
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