foretell是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为v. 预告， 预言，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- His heart was black with rage, and his eyes flashed fire as he scowled on Calchas and said, 'Seer of evil, you never yet prophesied smooth things concerning me, but have ever loved to foretell that which was evil.
-- When he had thus said the Erinyes stayed his speech, and Achilles answered him in great sadness, saying, 'Why, O Xanthus, do you thus foretell my death?
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was not difficult, however, to foretell the result, if any presage could be drawn from the feelings of those who crowded the place.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Her father fondly replied, 'Ah!my dear, I wish you would not make matches and foretell things, for whatever you say always comes to pass.
-- No, Mr. Knightley, do not foretell vexation from that quarter.'
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Can he foretell anything to me?'
-- The miller was curious, and said: 'Let him foretell some-thing for once.'
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- For such is the wonderful skill, prescience of experience, and invincible confidence acquired by some great natural geniuses among the Nantucket commanders; that from the simple observation of a whale when last descried, they will, under certain given circumstances, pretty accurately foretell both the direction in which he will continue to swim for a time, while out of sight, as well as his probable rate of progression during that period.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The cold insolence of Mrs. Ferrars's general behaviour to her sister, seemed, to her, to foretell such difficulties and distresses to Elinor, as her own wounded heart taught her to think of with horror; and urged by a strong impulse of affectionate sensibility, she moved after a moment, to her sister's chair, and putting one arm round her neck, and one cheek close to hers, said in a low, but eager, voice,"Dear, dear Elinor, don't mind them.
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