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Predictability is the fact that you can already see what will happen, or what someone will do. A machine, a story, or a friend’s habits can have predictability if they follow a clear pattern.
Predictability ispredictability指的是 the fact that you can already see what will happen, or what someone will do你已經能看出接下來會發生什麼事，或某個人會做什麼 A machine, a story, or a friend's habits一台機器、一個故事，或朋友的習慣 can have predictability都可以有predictability（可預測性） if they follow a clear pattern只要它們遵循一個清楚的模式
In science and engineering the word is often a compliment: people want predictability in a bridge or in a test.
In science and engineering在科學和工程領域 the word is often a compliment這個字常常是一種稱讚 people want predictability in a bridge or in a test大家希望一座橋或一個測試有predictability
Though actually, in everyday talk it can carry a little . If you complain about the predictability of a film, you mean it was too easy to see coming, and that made it dull. So the same noun can praise order or sigh at a lack of surprise.
Though actually不過其實 in everyday talk it can carry a little frown在日常說話裡這個字可能帶點皺眉的感覺 If you complain about the predictability of a film如果你抱怨一部電影的predictability you mean it was too easy to see coming意思是它太容易被猜到接下來會怎樣 and that made it dull這讓電影變得很無聊 So the same noun can praise order所以同一個名詞可以是在稱讚有秩序 or sigh at a lack of surprise也可以是在嘆息少了驚喜
It names the quality; the person or thing that is easy to guess is predictable.
It names the quality這個字說的是那種特質本身 the person or thing that is easy to guess is predictable容易被猜到的人或東西，則是predictable
組成From predict + -ability (‘the quality of being able to be…’).
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- predictthe verb this noun is built from
- predictablethe adjective: easy to see coming
原始詞典資料1 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。
predictabilitynoun/pɹəˌdɪktəˈbɪlɪti/
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The characteristic of being predictable.
- There are several ways to approach predictability. One way is to investigate whether asset prices over the past few days or weeks can be used to predict tomorrow’s price. The answer is no. Following a large amount of careful statistical work by Fama in the 1960s, researchers now agree that past prices are of very little use in predicting returns over the immediate future. [...] An implication of the excessive swings in stock prices is that a high ratio of price relative to dividends in one year will tend to be followed by a fall in prices relative to dividends over subsequent years, and vice versa. This means that returns follow a predictable pattern in the longer run. Shiller and his collaborators demonstrated such predictability in stock markets as well as bond markets, and other researchers have later confirmed this finding in many other markets.
- England's fans responded by loudly rallying to Maguire's cause but there was a grim predictability about what happened in the 67th minute, the defender lazily sticking out a leg to divert Robertson's cross past helpless keeper Aaron Ramsdale.
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。