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The stretch of time that is still ahead of you — everything after 'now'.
可以想成站在「現在」這條線上往前看：前方那段還沒到、即將展開的時間，就是 future。所有意思都從這個「往後、即將…更多收起
可以想成站在「現在」這條線上往前看：前方那段還沒到、即將展開的時間，就是 future。所有意思都從這個「往後、即將到來」的時間畫面長出來——可以指那段時間本身，也可以指那段時間裡會發生在某人某事身上的「前途」，還能進到文法和金融的專門用法。原始詞典資料9 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。
futurenoun/ˈfjuː.t͡ʃəː/
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The time ahead; those moments yet to be experienced.
- This solitary attitude stems in part from a deep sense of fatalism and futility, a profound social effect of the genophage that caused krogan numbers to dwindle to a relative handful. Not only are they angry that the entire galaxy seems out to get them, the krogan are also generally pessimistic about their race's chances of survival. The surviving krogan see no point to building for the future; there will be no future. The krogan live with an attitude of "kill, pillage, and be selfish, for tomorrow we die."
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Something that will happen in moments yet to come.
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Goodness in what is yet to come. Something to look forward to.
- There is no future in dwelling on the past.
- Think of banking today and the image is of grey-suited men in towering skyscrapers. Its future, however, is being shaped in converted warehouses and funky offices in San Francisco, New York and London, where bright young things in jeans and T-shirts huddle around laptops, sipping lattes or munching on free food.
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The likely prospects for or fate of someone or something in time to come.
- Again, it's unlikely they will return to traffic, but futures have been secured for four that will be heading to heritage railways [...].
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grammarhuman-scienceslinguisticsVerb tense used to talk about events that will happen in the future; future tense.
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computingengineeringmathematicsAn object that retrieves the value of a promise.
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hobbieslifestylesportsA minor-league prospect.
futureadj/ˈfjuː.t͡ʃəː/
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Having to do with or occurring in the future.
- Future generations will either laugh or cry at our stupidity.
- So this was my future home, I thought! Certainly it made a brave picture. I had seen similar ones fired-in on many a Heidelberg stein. Backed by towering hills,[…]a sky of palest Gobelin flecked with fat, fleecy little clouds, it in truth looked a dear little city; the city of one's dreams.
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。