- [countable]
an estimate or a statement of what figures, amounts, or events will be in the future, or what they were in the past, based on what is happening now 预测；推断；设想 to make forward/backward projections of population figures 推断未来／过去的人口数量 Sales have exceeded our projections. 销售量超过了我们的预测。 Calculations are based on a projection of existing trends. 计算结果是根据对现行趋势的预测作出的。
Extra ExamplesTopics Businessc1We have been making forward projections as to future profitability of the firm. 我们一直在对公司将来的盈利情况作预测。 On current projections, there will be more than fifty million people over 65 in 2020. 根据当前的预测，2020 年 65 岁以上的人口将超过 5,000 万。 The council has revised its projections of funding requirements upwards. 地方议会调高了对资金需求的预测。 They presented profit projections for the rest of the year. 他们提交了对本年度余下时间的盈利预测。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- current
- latest
- initial
- …
- make
- revise
- exceed
- …
- base a projection on something
- on… projections
- projection about
- projection for
- …
- [uncountable, countable]
the act of putting an image of something onto a surface; an image that is shown in this way 投射；放映；投影；放映的影像 the projection of three-dimensional images on a computer screen 在电脑屏幕上显示的立体影像 laser projections 激光影像
- [countable] (specialist)
a solid shape or object as represented on a flat surface 投影图 map projections 投影地图
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something that sticks out from a surface 突起物；隆起物 tiny projections on the cell 细胞上的小尖突出物
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the act of making your voice, a sound, etc. audible (= able to be heard) at a distance （嗓音或声音的）发送，传送，放开 voice projection 嗓音的放开
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the act of imagining that somebody else is thinking the same as you and is reacting in the same way 投射（不自觉地把自己的思想等加诸他人） - [countable, uncountable]
the act of giving a form and structure to inner thoughts and feelings （思想感情的）体现，形象化
estimate估计
of image影像
of solid shape立体图形
something that sticks out突出物
of voice/sound声音
psychology心理学
of thoughts/feelings思想感情
Word Originmid 16th cent. (in sense (3)): from Latin projectio(n-), from proicere ‘throw forth’, from pro- ‘forth’ + jacere ‘to throw’.