foreseeable

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fore·see·a·ble /fɔːˈsiːəbəl $ fɔːr-/ adjectiveadj

1 for/in the foreseeable future FUTUREfor as long as it is possible to know what is likely to happen 在可预见的将来

The situation is likely to continue for the foreseeable future.

这种局面在可预见的将来可能还会持续下去。

Examples from the Corpus

for/in the foreseeable future• Arguments about this change continue to rage, and will probably burn on for the foreseeable future.• It would be unrealistic to not expect to pay higher royalties in the foreseeable future.• Later that same enemy had been bloodily counter attacked and neutralised as a threat for the foreseeable future.• No test of the planned system against even average-intelligence decoys is planned in the foreseeable future.• Now, and for the foreseeable future, the world is awash in plutonium.• She is sure that this will settle them for the foreseeable future.• To push them on decommissioning would be to remove any chance of it happening in the foreseeable future.

2 in the foreseeable future PREDICTfairly soon 不久，很快

There is a possibility of water shortages in the foreseeable future.

不久的将来可能会出现水荒。

Examples from the Corpus

in the foreseeable future• There is a possibility of water shortages in the foreseeable future.• But the idea of full-blown solar power stations is unrealistic in the foreseeable future.• He noted that the club would need to do work on the North and South stands in the foreseeable future.• Is redundancy, early retirement, or any other major change possible or likely in the foreseeable future?• Some of the causes of default, such as socioeconomic conditions, can not be changed in the foreseeable future.• To push them on decommissioning would be to remove any chance of it happening in the foreseeable future.• We shall not bridge that gap with particle accelerators in the foreseeable future!

3 FUTUREforeseeable difficulties, events etc should be planned for because they are very likely to happen in the future 〔困难、事件等〕可预料的，很可能发生的

The judge found that it was not foreseeable that the fuel would catch fire.

法官裁定，燃料着火是无法预料的。

foreseeable risk

可预料的风险

Examples from the Corpus

foreseeable• In discussing this question, an Illinois court observed that hindsight makes every event foreseeable.• Some property damage was foreseeable and the fact that it was more extensive than might have been foreseen did not matter.• Your insurance policy should take into account all foreseeable circumstances.• In Britain for the foreseeable future the ultimate purchaser of 80% or more of health care will continue to be the Treasury.• To push them on decommissioning would be to remove any chance of it happening in the foreseeable future.• There will not be any redundancies in the foreseeable future.• A General Council of all the Churches does not seem to be a realistic possibility in the foreseeable future.• Due to rising costs and delays in the delivery of equipment, losses are already foreseeable on the new tunnel project.• Employers must be told in advance when a leave of absence is foreseeable - such as for the birth of a baby.• They created a duty of care imposed on builders and owed to foreseeable victims of their negligence.

fore·see·a·ble adjectiveadj

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