foretell
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编辑约1300年,源自中古英语 foretellen,等价于fore- + tell。
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编辑foretell (第三人称单数简单现在时 foretells,现在分词 foretelling,一般过去时及过去分词 foretold)
- (及物、不及物) 预测,预言;预兆,预示
- Template:RQ:Homer Pope et al Odyssey
- 1741, Conyers Middleton, The Life of Cicero:
- Prodigies, foretelling the future eminence and lustre of his character.
- (请为本引文添加中文翻译)
- (及物) 给...预言,告诉...预言
- 1739, Edward Button, Rudiments of Ancient History:
- […] there came to him a Person named Saul, whom Samuel had never before seen; but God made him know it was the same he had foretold him of.
- (请为本引文添加中文翻译)
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编辑- “foretell”,The Century Dictionary […],New York, N.Y.:The Century Co.,1911,OCLC 867766587
- “foretell”,Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary,Springfield, Mass.:G. & C. Merriam,1913年,OCLC 800618302