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Forethought is careful thinking you do before you act — packing a coat because you used forethought about the rain, saving a little money with some forethought. It is the opposite of rushing in. The word is a little formal and a little old-fashioned, but people still use it, often in the phrase with / without forethought. Though actually, in everyday talk many people say planning ahead or thinking ahead instead. Afterthought is the sibling word: something you only think of later. There is also a rare old verb, forethink, but you can live without it.
深謀遠慮、事先的考量
組成fore- (before) + thought. From Middle English forethouht / forethoght, from Old English *foreþōht; the same idea as the old verb forethink.
同家族的字
- thoughtthe second half; thinking itself
- afterthoughta thought that comes too late, the opposite in time
- thinkthe verb behind thought
原始詞典資料5 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，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。
forethoughtnoun/ˈfɔː(ɹ)θɔːt/
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Thinking beforehand or in advance, planning; prior or previous consideration.
- Near-synonym: foresight
- With a little forethought we'd have planned for this contingency and not been stuck here now.
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Anticipation.
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Provident care; prudence.
forethoughtadj/fɔː(ɹ)ˈθɔːt/
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Thought of, or planned, beforehand.
- c. 1613–1621, Francis Bacon, The judicial charge upon the commission of Oyer and Terminer held for the verge of the Court Forethought malice.
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。