pretell

动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To predict.
    — The Roman historian Tacitus does not simply tell what has happened in a past long past so that it will be preserved for the present and into an endless future; rather, he pretells what has happened, in effect transposing history (necessarily of the past) into prediction (necessarily of the future).

词形变化

pretells present,singular,third-person pretelling participle,present pretold participle,past pretold past

词源

From pre- + tell.
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