presentiment

英 [prɪˈzentɪmənt]

美 [prɪˈzentɪmənt]

n.  预感; (尤指)不祥之感

复数：presentiments　

GRE

BNC.41788 / COCA.36150

牛津词典

noun

• 预感；（尤指）不祥之感
  a feeling that sth is going to happen, especially sth unpleasant
  1. a presentiment of disaster
     大难临头的预感

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT 预感；预知
  Apresentimentis a feeling that a particular event, for example someone's death, will soon take place.
  1. I had a presentiment that he represented a danger to me...
     我预感他会给我带来危险。
  2. He had a presentiment of disaster.
     他预感会有灾难降临。

英英释义

noun

• a feeling of evil to come
  1. a steadily escalating sense of foreboding
  2. the lawyer had a presentiment that the judge would dismiss the case
  Synonym:forebodingpremonitionboding

双语例句

• Now, our observation of the object embraces a presentiment of the world in all its wholeness because there is nothing that cannot be understood.
  现在，我们对物体的观察，包含了对整个世界的预感，因为没有什么是不能被理解的。
• They are hastening back to their warm wooden dovecote earlier than usual perhaps because they have mistaken the bleak leaden sky for nightfall or because of their presentiment of a storm.
  也许是误认这灰暗的凄冷的天空为夜色的来袭，或是也预感到风雨的将至，遂过早地飞回它们温暖的木舍。
• The umbrella owner slowed his steps. Soapy did likewise, with a presentiment that luck would again run against him.
  绸伞的主人放慢了脚步，索比也跟着慢了下来。他有一种预感，命运会再一次同他作对。
• Third, build up realty presentiment system from the angle of financial crisis;
  其三建立金融危机角度的房地产预警体系；
• I had a presentiment that he represented a danger to me
  我预感他会给我带来危险。
• An inspired guess or presentiment.
  被激起的猜想或预感。
• Well, Nelly,'said he, riding into the yard one morning, too early not to alarm me with an instant presentiment of bad news,` it's yours and my turn to go into mourning at present.
  “喂，耐莉，”他说，有一天早晨他骑马走进院子，来得太早，不能不使我吃惊，心想一定是报告坏消息来的。“现在该轮到你我去奔丧了。
• This everyone recognition of the fool and real life antipathetic, have super era and manner, become a presentiment that chieftain system the rise and fall of the witness.
  这个人人都认定的傻子与理想生活格格不入，却有着超时期的预见和举止，成为土司制度兴衰的见证人。
• Moved by great curiosity and a presentiment that they had found the answer to their deepest questions, they wanted to know who he really was and whence he came.
  他们受到大好奇心的驱使，且预感能找到他们心中重大问题的答案，所以很想知道他究竟是谁？来自何方？
• The second, research the acting means of presentiment system, this part is consist of spy and patrol signal fire transferring and recovery per se.
  第二部对汉代居延地区候望系统的运作方式进行研究，由侦察与巡逻、烽火传递与烽燧自身的防御等几个方面的内容构成。