- 1nB2
/prɪˈdɪkʃən/
a statement about what you think will happen in the future, or the act of saying that.
預測;預言
複數 predictions
核心畫面
Picture someone saying now what they think will be true later — the forecast, the guess about the score, the economist's number for next year. The word covers both the sentence itself and the act of making it, and it is always spoken before the event, never after.
可以想成:一個人現在就說出他認為之後會發生的事——天氣預報、對比數的猜測、經濟學家給明年的數字。這個字同時涵蓋「那句…更多收起
可以想成:一個人現在就說出他認為之後會發生的事——天氣預報、對比數的猜測、經濟學家給明年的數字。這個字同時涵蓋「那句話」和「說出那句話這件事」,而且永遠是在事情發生之前說的。事後才說的判斷不是 prediction。原始詞典資料2 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。
predictionnoun/pɹɪˈdɪkʃən/
- 1
A statement of what will happen in the future.
- make predictions about something
- correct prediction
- 2
mathematicssciencesstatisticsA probability estimation based on statistical methods.
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。