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pre·dict /prɪˈdɪkt/ ●●● W3 AWL verb [transitiveT]  
PREDICTto say that something will happen, before it happens 预言，预料，预测 → prediction
 Sales were five percent lower than predicted.
销售额比预期低5%。
predict (that)
 Newspapers predicted that Davis would be re-elected.
报纸预测戴维斯将再次当选。
predict whether/what/how etc
 It is difficult to predict what the long-term effects of the accident will be.
很难预料这次事故将产生什么长远影响。
 As Liz had predicted, the rumours were soon forgotten.
正如利兹所预料的，流言很快就被淡忘了。
be predicted to do something
 Unemployment is predicted to increase to 700,000 by the end of the year.
预计到年底失业人数将增至70万。
n GRAMMAR: Patterns with predict
You predict that something will happen:
Experts predict that the economic situation will improve.
You predicted that something would happen:
Experts predicted that the economic situation would improve.
You predict that something might or could happen:
No one could have predicted that she might do something like that.
You say that something is predicted to happen:
The population is predicted to increase.
You say it is predicted that something will happen:
It is predicted that the population will increase.
You say that someone is predicting something. Predict is often used in the progressive:
They are predicting another hot summer.
 THESAURUS
predict to say that something will happen, before it happens 预测,预言
In the future, it may be possible to predict earthquakes.
将来有可能预测地震。
Scientists are trying to predict what the Amazon will look like in 20 years' time.
科学家们正试图预测20年后亚马孙河的面貌。
forecast to say what is likely to happen in the future, especially in relation to the weather or the economic or political situation 预报,预测〔尤用于天气、经济情况或政治局势〕
They’re forecasting a hard winter.
他们预报说将出现寒冬。
Economists forecast that there would be a recession.
经济学家预言将出现经济衰退。
project to say what the amount, size, cost etc of something is likely to be in the future, using the information you have now 〔利用已知信息〕推断,预计
The world’s population is projected to rise by 45%.
世界人口预计将增加45%。
can say especially spoken be able to know what will happen in the future 能够预言,敢说
No one can say what the next fifty years will bring.
没人能预言今后50年会发生什么。
I can’t say exactly how much it will cost.
我说不准那要花多少钱。
foretell to say correctly what will happen in the future, using special religious or magical powers 〔运用宗教力量或魔法〕预言,预示
The woman claimed that she had the gift of foretelling the future.
那女人声称自己有预测未来的天赋。
It all happened as the prophet had foretold.
所发生的一切正如先知所预言的那样。
prophesy to say that something will happen because you feel that it will, or by using special religious or magical powers 〔因感知或运用宗教力量或魔法〕预言,预示
He’s one of those people who are always prophesying disaster.
他是那种老是预言灾难的人。
The coming of a great Messiah is prophesied in the Bible.
《圣经》中预言将出现一位伟大的弥赛亚。
nHe prophesied that the world would end in 2012.
nMarx prophesied that capitalism would destroy itself.
foresee to know that something is going to happen before it happens 预见,预知
They should have foreseen these problems.
他们理应预见到这些问题。
No one foresaw the outcome of the war.
没有人预知会爆发这场战争。
have a premonition to have a strange feeling that something is about to happen, especially something bad, usually just before it happens 〔尤指坏事发生前〕有预感
Suddenly I had a strange premonition of danger ahead.
我突然有一种奇怪的预感,觉得前面有危险。
Examples from the Corpus
predict• a major earthquake that no-one had predicted• But not in any form I could have predicted.• Even the amount of time remaining is almost impossible to predict.• The newspapers are predicting a close election.• Most of the papers are predicting an easy victory for the Dallas Cowboys.• In three years, Mr Kern predicts, every major fund group will offer a microcap fund.• But no-one can predict how new joints will last.• Time and again, his detractors predicted that he would cancel elections and referendums.• Some scientists predict that the Earth's temperature will rise by as much as 5° over the next 20 years.• Purdue was not predicted to win any of them.• It is also possible to predict under what pathologic circumstances excretion of free water would be impaired.• Economists are predicting zero growth for the fourth quarter.
be predicted to do something• This is due to be announced next month and is predicted to involve job losses and possible plant closures.• The results were predicted to be of two kinds.• Already regional water shortages are causing disruptions and are predicted to become the cause of wars in the near future.• Plant cost inflation is predicted to drop marginally from 6 p.c. last year to an average above 5 p.c. up to 1994.• Unemployment was predicted to increase to 700,000 by the end of 1991.• And that will seem positively bucolic in 2015, when the traffic count is predicted to more than triple.• The figure was predicted to rise to one billion by the year 2000.
From Longman Business Dictionary
predictpre·dict /prɪˈdɪkt/ verb [transitiveT]
to say what you think will happen
Wall Street had been predicting a quarterly profit of 5 cents per share.
predict that
Economists are predicting that growth will slow.
Unemployment is predicted to increase to 700,000 by the end of the year.
—prediction noun [countableC]
The data can be used to make useful economic predictions.
Origin predict
(1500-1600) Latin past participle of praedicere “to say beforehand”
pre·dict verb →n GRAMMAR1 →THESAURUS1
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