a feeling that something is going to happen, especially something unpleasant (尤指不祥的)预感 - premonition (of something)
a premonition of disaster 大祸临头的预感 - premonition (that…)
He had a premonition that he would never see her again. 他有一种再也见不到她的预感。 Perhaps he had a premonition about what might happen in London. 也许他预感到了将会在伦敦发生的事情。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- eerie
- spooky
- feel
- get
- have
- …
- premonition about
- premonition of
Word Originmid 16th cent. (in the sense ‘advance warning’): from French prémonition, from late Latin praemonitio(n-), from Latin praemonere, from prae ‘before’ + monere ‘warn’.- premonition (of something)