prescient

adj.

1. 预知的；先觉的
   knowing or appearing to know about things before they happen

1. ADJ-GRADED 预知的；预见性的；能预见未来的
   If you say that someone or something was prescient, you mean that they were able to know or predict what was going to happen in the future.
   1. ...'Bob Roberts', an eerily prescient comedy about a populist multimillionaire political candidate.
      《天生赢家》，一部关于一位拥有数千万家财的平民党政治候选人的怪诞预言性喜剧

1. Some women have considered her a role model; others, irrespective of gender, have simply viewed her a prescient and colorful character of the financial world.
   一些女性以西伯特为楷模；而其他人，无论男女，则都把她视为金融界一位有预见性而又丰富多彩的人物。
2. The plan was prescient: nearly three years later hurricane sandy happened.
   事实证明，这项计划颇有先见之明：差不多三年后，纽约港就迎来了桑迪飓风（HurricaneSandy）。
3. We can now see how prescient a move it really was.
   时至今日，我们知道这一步是多么地有先见之明。
4. If the Chinese zodiac is that prescient, I wish you all the courage and strength of the tiger to stride into the second decade of the21st century.
   如果生肖真是这样奇妙，我祝愿虎年大家都能发挥老虎的勇气和力量，为廿一世纪第二个十年，迈出成功的第一步。
5. The question posed by US China scholar, David Lampton, in a speech in Shanghai in March looks disturbingly prescient after a whirl of diplomatic and security offensives in recent weeks in the region.
   在亚洲近几周来上演了一连串外交和安全攻势后，美国的中国问题专家戴维兰普顿（DavidLampton）今年3月在上海发表讲话时提出的这个问题，现在看来有着惊人的预见性。
6. President George W. Bush should have seen that Japan provided no model for occupying Mesopotamia, Mr Dower wrote in a strikingly prescient 2002 New York Times op-ed, reproduced here.
   他在2002年《纽约时报》的社论专栏里极有先见之明地写道：乔治·W·布什总统应该认识到，日本不能为攻占美索不达米亚提供模式。
7. Jefferson is sometimes vilified for anticipating the legacy of slavery, and of the doctrine of white supremacy that permitted it. But he was more prescient than many would care to admit.
   杰斐逊对奴隶制及白人至上主义的遗留问题的预测，有时会使他遭到诋毁，但他的先见之明超出许多人所愿意承认的。
8. Although Motorola has been a drag on Google's earnings since then, the move seems prescient now.
   虽然摩托罗拉一直在拖累谷歌的收益，但现在来看他的这一招似乎有先见之明。
9. When Barack Obama won the US presidential election last year, one of the first papers prepared for him was a sober and prescient document drafted by the National Intelligence Council in Washington.
   巴拉克奥巴马（barackobama）去年当选美国总统时，在为他准备的首批文件中，有一份是美国国家情报委员会（nationalintelligencecouncil）起草的，冷静而富有远见。
10. MS Blanco disagreed, but those comments now look prescient.
    布兰科不同意此看法，但是这些评论看起来还是有先见之明的。
11. We cast a prescient gaze into our future.
    我们把眼光移向未来。
12. While it remains to be seen whether this work is equally prescient, the conclusions are sobering.
    尽管我们现在还不知道文中的观点是不是同样会在未来得到证实，但那些结论也足够发人深省了。
13. In the years since he penned this essay, Greenspan has partly backed away from those ideas ( and he blatantly ignored their implications when he was at the Fed) But now they look prescient.
    写下这篇文章之后的那些年，格林斯潘在一定程度上已背弃了那些观点（他在美联储时公然忽略了它们的意义）。但现在看来，它们显得很有预见性。
14. He has been prescient in understanding the links between financial markets and the real economy.
    在理解金融市场与实体经济之间的联系方面，他是有先见之明的。
15. The second goal to have an impact on the world of management practice has proven particularly prescient in the continuing worldwide debate about the relevance of management research.
    事实证明，第二个目标对管理学实践领域产生影响尤其具有先见之明：世界范围内关于管理学研究相关性的辩论仍在继续。
16. This view known as the "Triffin Dilemma" proved prescient: the Bretton Woods system fell in 1971.
    事实证明，这种观点被称为“特里芬难题”（triffindilemma）具有先见之明：布雷顿森林体系于1971年崩溃。
17. The lawyers 'prescient observations eventually led to the recognition of a common law right to privacy in the United States.
    这两位律师警醒的见解最终导致美国确立了承认隐私权的普通法。
18. But BMW retaliated with the prescient X3, and everyone from Chevrolet to Volkswagen now has something to offer in this market.
    为了与宝马的X3进行竞争，雪佛兰以及大众都有相应的车型进入了这个市场。
19. On both issues, the Republican candidate for the presidency took positions that now look prescient and courageous.
    在这两个问题上，这位共和党总统候选人采取的立场此刻显得既有先见之明，又有胆量。
20. Charles Adams was prescient in his quick understanding of this issue.
    查尔斯亚当斯很快就明白了这个问题，真是有先见之明。
21. Mr LeWitt was prescient about the financial crisis.
    路易特预见到了本轮金融危机。
22. Her worries about the obstacles to a single European currency for such different countries have proved prescient.
    事实证明，她对如此迥异的国家采用欧洲单一货币的担心是有先见之明的。
23. His determination to focus American power on Afghanistan, Pakistan and proliferation was prescient.
    他决心把美军重点放在阿富汗、巴基斯坦和核扩散上，这都很有预见性。
24. As predicted by many prescient persons, the cheapening of life that began with abortion has now metastasized.
    正如许多有先见之明的人所预言的那样，从堕胎开始的对生命的䌀值，如今已经扩散到其他领域了。
25. Their prescient comments about the dangers of lead were made some six years before research showed that lead in drinking water harms children.
    他们对铅的危险性的先见之明比正式的研究表明饮用水中的铅会对儿童造成危害约早6年。
26. Those words were prescient.
    这话说得颇有先见之明。
27. It was a remarkably prescient vision.
    这的确很有远见。
28. Friedrich Hayek was prescient: a surge of excessive liquidity can misdirect investments that lead to boom followed by bust.
    弗里德里希哈耶克（friedrichhayek）有先见之明：过量流动性的激增可能会造成投资不当，导致繁荣后的泡沫破裂。
29. To his hedge fund peers, while Mr Paulson has been prescient so far, he appears overly aggressive in making his macro bets now and sometimes takes big, concentrated bets.
    对于他的对冲基金同行来说，尽管保尔森迄今一直具有先见之明，但他现在进行的豪赌似乎过于激进，而且有时进行规模庞大的集中押注。
30. Schumpeter was pessimistic about the long-run prospects of capitalism, for prescient if unconventional reasons.
    出于预见性（如果不是反传统的话）的原因，熊彼特对资本主义的长期前景持悲观态度。