- 1預知；事先知道（不是「先知」那個人）
Foreknowledge is knowledge that something is going to happen before it actually does. It is a formal word. You meet it when people talk seriously about the future: they left the coast with no foreknowledge of how bad the storm would be. In religion and philosophy, people argue about God’s foreknowledge — whether knowing the future still leaves people free to choose. The point is that the knowing comes first; it is not the same as a lucky guess after the fact. In everyday talk, people are more likely to say I knew in advance or nobody warned us.
組成fore- (before) + knowledge.
原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
foreknowledgenoun
- 1
Knowing beforehand.
- The prosecution intends to prove that the defendant had foreknowledge.
- [H]e [Paul] laboureth to comfort Timothy vvith the remembrance of the ſtedfaſtneſs of Gods eternal decree of Election, becauſe grounded on his foreknowledge; […]
- 2
Knowing beforehand.
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