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/prɪˈdɪkt/
to say that something will happen, before it happens, usually because of what you know, have seen, or have measured.
預測
過去式 predicted過去分詞 predicted-ing predicting三單 predicts
核心畫面
Picture someone speaking about a thing before it happens — but not guessing wildly. They have looked at the data, the sky, the past record, and on that basis they say out loud what is coming: the storm will reach the coast by morning, this team will win. The word carries both halves: it points forward in time, and it rests on something you already know or have measured.
可以想成畫面是：有人在事情發生之前先把它講出來——但不是亂猜。他看過數據、看過天色、看過過去的紀錄，根據這些說出接下…更多收起
可以想成畫面是：有人在事情發生之前先把它講出來——但不是亂猜。他看過數據、看過天色、看過過去的紀錄，根據這些說出接下來會怎樣：暴風雨早上會到岸邊、這隊會贏。這個字同時帶著兩件事——時間上往前指，以及背後靠著你已經知道或量到的東西。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。
predictverb/pɹɪˈdɪkt/
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To make a prediction: to forecast, foretell, or estimate a future event on the basis of knowledge and reasoning; to prophesy a future event on the basis of mystical knowledge or power.
- After he had renounced his fathers bishoprick of Valentia in Spaine... and to attaine by degrees the Maiesty of Cesar, was created Duke of that place, gaue for his poesie, Aut Cesar, aut nihil. which being not fauoured from the heauens, had presently the euent the same predicted.
- Professor Trelawney kept predicting Harry’s death, which he found extremely annoying.
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To imply.
- It is interesting to see how clearly theory predicts the difference between the ascending and descending curves of a dynamo.
- For both men and women, greater symmetry predicted a larger number of past sex partners.
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To make predictions.
- The devil can both predict and make predictors.
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raregovernmentmilitarypoliticsTo direct a ranged weapon against a target by means of a predictor.
- They're predicting us now; looks like a barrage.
predictnoun/pɹɪˈdɪkt/
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obsoleteA prediction.
- Or say with Princes if it shall go well, / By oft predict that I in heaven find.
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。