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Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary pre·dict·able adjective ⇨ see predict Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary-牛津双解-OALD7 predictable pre·dict·able / pri5diktEbl / adjective1. if sth is predictable, you know in advance that it will happen or what it will be like 可预见的；可预料的: a predictable result 可预见的结果 The ending of the book was entirely predictable. 那本书的结局完全是可以想见的。 In March and April, the weather is much less predictable. 三、四月份的天气非常不好预测。 2. (often disapproving) behaving or happening in a way that you would expect and therefore boring 意料之中的；老套乏味的: He's very nice, but I find him rather dull and predictable. 他为人很不错,但我觉得他相当呆板乏味。 • pre·dict·abil·ity / pri7diktE5bilEti / noun [U] • pre·dict·ably / -Ebli / adv.: Prices were predictably high. 价格高昂是意料中的事。 Predictably, the new regulations proved unpopular. 正如所预料,新规定果然不得人心。 Oxford Collocations Dictionary for Students of English predictable VERBS be, seem | become ADV. easily, extremely, highly, very | completely, entirely, quite, totally, wholly | almost | largely | fairly, pretty, reasonably, relatively | sadly England's defeat in the third test match was sadly predictable. PREP. from He asked whether this was predictable from previous performances. OLT predictable adj. ⇨ predictable 1 (predictable results) ⇨ predictable 2 (You're so predictable!) Webster's Third New International Dictionary, Unabridged pre·dict·a·ble \ ̷ ̷ˈ ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷_bəl\ adjective Etymology: predict + -able : capable of being foretold < are clearly drifting into predictable chaos and critical dilution of standards — H.D.Gideonse > • pre·dict·a·bly \-blē, -bli\ adverb
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