predict的读法

1. 预言，预料，预告，预知，预测，预报，预期，估计，揣摩，预见，预计

1. vt. & vi. 预言; 预测; 预示 say, tell, show in advance

1.预言；预测；预告
If youpredict an event, you say that it will happen.

e.g. The latest opinion polls are predicting a very close contest...
最近的民意测验预测竞争将会非常激烈。
e.g. He predicted that my hair would grow back 'in no time'...
他预言我的头发“一眨眼”就会长回来。

• predict a bad fortune预感要遭厄运
• predict a good harvest预言会有个好收成
• predict rain预告有雨

• predict boldly大胆地预言
• predict confidently很有信心地预言
• predict correctly正确地预言
• predict darkly秘密地预言
• predict dismally沮丧地预测
• predict miraculously奇迹般地预言
• predict mournfully令人伤心地预示
• predict safely稳妥地预言

• predict sth for tomorrow预告明天会〔有〕…
• predict from pure conjecture纯凭猜测预言

• She had predicted the direst consequences if her son persisted in 'this mad folly'.

  出自：W. March

• His tutors predicted that he would be lucky to get a third.

  出自：A. Brookner

predict, augur, forebode, forecast, foretell, presage, prognosticate, prophesy

这组词都有“预言,预示”的意思。其区别是：

foretell强调预告即将发生的事情,而不暗示这种预告是否有依据或消息的来源是否可靠; predict指根据事实或自然规律进行推断后作出预告,暗示有科学的准确性; forecast指对未来的预报、推测或设想,强调最终可能产生的结果,尤指天气预报; prophesy指受灵感启示而作出预言,暗示有较强的自信; prognosticate指根据前兆或症状预知、预测; augur指靠占卜预言未来的吉凶祸福; presage指预示,其中, presage可指好、坏或不好不坏的事; forebode指不祥的预感。