foresee是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为vt. 预见, 预知,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:
-- He would weep till his cry came up to heaven, and then Jove would send me down to help him; if I had had the sense to foresee all this, when Eurystheus sent him to the house of Hades, to fetch the hell-hound from Erebus, he would never have come back alive out of the deep waters of the river Styx.
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:
-- Hawkeye, though too much accustomed to Indian artifices not to foresee the danger of the experiment, knew not well how to combat this sudden resolution.
-- There was no deep insight into causes and effects necessary to foresee that such a situation of things was likely to prove highly prejudicial to their future movements.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- They remember that they too trod down a sated generation, with just such clamor and with just such scorn, and they foresee that these brave torch-bearers will presently yield their place also.
-- "I foresee some terrible catastrophe."
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- And then, my friends, we must foresee everything.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He carefully fulfilled his duties, separated the weak ones, and could not possibly foresee either the terrible heat, or that they would be taken away so late and in such a crowd.
-- He led the party in the usual way, according to instructions, and could not possibly foresee that such strong men, like the two whom Nekhludoff had seen, would succumb and die.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- "I admit your calculations, Captain," I replied; "I should be wrong to dispute them since daily experience confirms them; but I foresee a real difficulty in the way."
-- True enough!Who could then foresee the minimum of time necessary for our deliverance?
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- I was superstitious about dreams then, and am still; and Catherine had an unusual gloom in her aspect, that made me dread something from which I might shape a prophecy, and foresee a fearful catastrophe.
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