envisage
verb (especially British English)(North American English usually envision)
to imagine what will happen in the future 想象；设想；展望 - envisage something
What level of profit do you envisage? 你预计会有什么样的利润水平？ - envisage (somebody) doing something
I can't envisage her coping with this job. 我无法设想她如何应付这个工作。 I don’t envisage working with him again. 我想象不出有再和他共事的可能。 - it is envisaged that…
It is envisaged that the talks will take place in the spring. 谈判预期在春季举行。 - envisage that…
I envisage that the work will be completed next year. 我预计这项工作将在明年完成。 - envisage how, where, etc…
It is difficult to envisage how people will react. 很难设想人们将有什么反应。
Synonyms imagineimagine- think
- see
- envisage
- envision
- imagine to form an idea in your mind of what somebody/something might be like:
The house was just as she had imagined it. 这房子正如她所想象的。
- think to imagine something that might happen or might have happened:
We couldn’t think where you’d gone. 我们猜想不出来你到哪里去了。 Just think—this time tomorrow we’ll be lying on a beach. 想想看，明天这个时候我们就躺在海滩上了。
- see to consider something as a future possibility; to imagine somebody as something:
I can’t see her changing her mind. 我无法想象她会改变主意。 His colleagues see him as a future director. 他的同事认为他很可能是未来的负责人。
- envisage (especially British English)
to imagine what will happen in the future: 指想象、设想、展望： I don’t envisage working with him again. 我想象不出有再和他共事的可能。
- envision to imagine what a situation will be like in the future, especially a situation that you intend to work towards:
They envision an equal society, free from poverty and disease. 他们向往一个没有贫穷和疾病的平等社会。
- to imagine/see/envisage/envision somebody/something as something
- to imagine/see/envisage/envision (somebody) doing something
- to imagine/think/see/envisage/envision who/what/how…
- to imagine/think/envisage/envision that…
Extra ExamplesI cannot envisage myself playing again next season 我无法想象自己下一个赛季还要比赛。 It was never envisaged that this would be a long-term solution. 从未想过这将会是一个长远的解决方案。 It was originally envisaged that the talks would take place in the spring. 最初的设想是在春季举行会谈。 Eventually she did end up involved in politics, but not in the way she had originally envisaged. 最终她确实卷入了政治，但不是以她最初设想的方式。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadverb- initially
- originally
- currently
- …
- can
- be difficult to
- be hard to
- …
- envisage yourself doing something
Word Originearly 19th cent.: from French envisager, from en- ‘in’ + visage ‘face’.- envisage something