PREDICTa strange feeling that something, especially something bad, is going to happen 〔尤指不祥的〕预感
premonition of
a premonition of death
死亡的预感
premonition that
When Anne didn’t arrive, Paul had a premonition that she was in danger.
安妮没有来,保罗就预感到她有危险了。
Examples from the Corpus
premonition• Even then I had a premonition of danger, of menace.• She had a premonition that she would die in a planecrash.• She had a premonition that she was going to die, and she did so peacefully.• About six months after Mr Reynolds' first premonition, he experienced unexplainednoises, mainly thumping and banging.• He foresaw the decimation of the Hawaiian people; perhaps he had some premonition of his own end too.• For Kadare, history is not knowledge but illness, and Gjon falls sick with the premonition of an ominous planetary shift.• In the 1972 single-handed Transatlanticyacht race, a number of hallucinations and illusions were experienced, some of them premonitions.• He was sitting in the new, renovatedbathroom with the unmistakablepremonition that now he was going to be sick.
had ... premonition• A silent, peaceful place but he had a premonition of something terrible.• He had a premonition that the enemy might be waiting for them.• Even then I had a premonition of danger, of menace.• It was illogical, but she had a premonition that Officer Hassan's instinct would provecorrect.
Originpremonition
(1500-1600)FrenchLate Latinpraemonitio, from Latinpraemonere“to warn before”
ADJECTIVE | VERB + PREMONITION | PREPOSITIONADJECTIVE➤eerie, spooky怪異的/恐怖的預感VERB + PREMONITION➤feel, get, have有不祥的預感PREPOSITION➤premonition about關於⋯的不祥預感◇Perhaps he had a premonition about what might happen in London.也許他預感到了將會在倫敦發生的事情。➤premonition of⋯的不祥預感◇I wonder if she had a premonition of her own fate.我不知道她是否對自己的命運有不祥的預感。