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    A premonition is a strange feeling that something is coming, especially something bad, before you have a solid reason. It is not a plan and not a proof; it is a knowing that arrives early, in the body or the mind.

    A premonitionpremonition is a strange feeling是一種奇怪的感覺 that something is coming覺得有事要發生了, especially something bad尤其是壞事, before you have a solid reason而且是在你還沒有確切理由之前就有這種感覺。It它 is not a plan and not a proof不是計畫,也不是證據; it is a knowing that arrives early而是一種提早出現的「知道」, in the body or the mind在身體或心裡浮現

    People say it after a close scare, and stories love it. Some speakers use it loosely for any guess about the future; the tidier use keeps it for that odd, often dark, feeling.

    People大家 say it會這麼說 after a close scare通常是在一次驚險之後, and stories而故事作品 love it很愛用這個字。Some speakers有些人 use it loosely for any guess about the future會鬆散地用它泛指任何對未來的猜測; the tidier use比較講究的用法 keeps it for that odd, often dark, feeling則把它留給那種奇怪、常常帶點不祥意味的感覺

    You can have a premonition of danger, of death, or of a phone call you do not want. It sounds a little like story-book English, but real people say it too — usually after the thing has already started to come true.

    You can have你可以有 a premonition of danger, of death, or of a phone call you do not want一種對危險、死亡,或你不想接到的電話的預感。It它 sounds a little like story-book English聽起來有點像故事書裡的英文, but real people say it too但真實生活中的人也會這麼說 — usually after the thing has already started to come true通常是在事情已經開始成真之後

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組成pre- ('before') + a Latin root moneō ('to warn'). The whole noun came through church Latin and French, from Anglo-Norman premunition, as a 'forewarning'. English monitor comes from that same 'warn' root. Germanic languages built a plainer twin: forewarning.

同家族的字

  • monitorsame Latin moneō, 'to warn'
  • premonitorythe describing word from the same 'forewarn' stem

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。

premonitionnoun/ˌpriːməˈnɪʃən/

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    A clairvoyant or clairaudient experience, such as a dream, which resonates with some event in the future.

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    A strong intuition that something is about to happen (usually something negative, but not exclusively).

    • The sinister face of Dr. Bauerstein recurred to me unpleasantly. A vague suspicion of everyone and everything filled my mind. Just for a moment I had a premonition of approaching evil.

資料來源:英文維基詞典 English WiktionaryCC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。