presage是什么意思,presage怎么用
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presage
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📰 外刊例句
A fibre-optic mat installed in a nursing home or an old person’s own residence could monitor changes in an individual’s gait that presage certain illnesses. 将光纤垫安装在养老院或老人自己家中,可以监测一个人步态的变化,预测某些疾病。
—— 《经济学人》
—— 《纽约时报》
📖 基本释义
[noun] a sign or warning that something, typically something bad, will happen
[名词] 某事(通常指坏事)将要发生的迹象或警告
💡 深入解读
对于坚持打卡小站的老铁来说,可能第一眼看到 presage 这个单词,很容易联想起小站一年多前推送过的与之形似的prestige来。但仔细一看,又不难发现该词可以拆分为前缀 pre- (预先)和小站两个多月前推送的sage来联想记忆。虽然 presage 与 sage 同词根 sag (知道),但实际上 presage 源自拉丁语praesagire(预感、预兆),由前缀 pre- (预先)+词根 sag (知道)+ e 构成,14世纪末进入英语后先是用来作名词表示“预感、预知”或“预示、预兆”,尤指引起恐惧、绝望等情绪的“不祥之兆”,
比如:
She could not sleep at night and was haunted by a presage of disaster. Extreme stress had driven her to the brink of a nervous breakdown.她夜不能眠,总觉得有大难临头。极大的压力使她处于精神崩溃的边缘。
From the peculiar smell of the smoke he was only able to presage danger and disaster.等到了16世纪中后期, presage 又开始用作动词表示“预感、预知”或“预示、预兆”,相应也是多指将要发生不祥或不好之事,但也可以用来表示中性或有利的预示,比如:从烟的异味中,他只能感到危险和灾难降临。
His words imported a change of attitude. The change could presage serious problems.他的话意味着态度的转变。这一变化可能预示要发生严重的问题。
📚 名著用例
In the hospitals during the war she had seen too many faces wearing this pinched look not to know what it inevitably presaged . 战争时期她在医院里见过那么多这种模样的面孔,她当然知道这预示着什么了。
— 出自《美国作家玛格丽特·米切尔(Margaret Mitchell)创作的长篇小说《飘》( Gone with the Wind )。该小说在1937年获得普利策奖,是玛格丽特·米切尔在世时出版的唯一一部作品。不但它成为美国史上最为畅销的小说之一,而且由这部小说所改编的同名电影《乱世佳人》也成为影史上不朽的经典。》
🔍 同近义词
- portend: be a sign or warning that (something, especially something momentous or calamitous) is likely to happen
- augur: (of an event or circumstance) portend a good or bad outcome
- foreshadow: be a warning or indication of (a future event)

