1.预知的,有先见之明的;有见识的 (of)
1.knowing or behaving as if you know what will happen in the future
1.Even the title of his book, The Age of Turbulence, looks uncannily - if not uncharacteristically - prescient.
甚至是本书的书名《动荡年代》（TheAgeofTurbulence），如果不是典型地，也是令人惊奇地具有先见之明。
2.Rumsfeld then made the prescient point that "this campaign" that the United States was embarking on "is a marathon, not a sprint. "
拉姆斯菲尔德随后又一针见血地指出：美国正在投入的“这场斗争是一场马拉松，决不会一蹴而就。”
3.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。
4.This remark has been used by the Nabokov estate as a prescient approval of its failure to destroy The Original of Laura.
这段评论已经被纳博科夫的遗产继承者当作未能销毁TheOriginalofLaura的预见性的准许。
5.Released in 1987, it was a brilliant, prescient taste of what was to come: the crash later that year; the insider trading scandals.
这部1987年的电影惊人地预测了这一年晚些时候的金融危机，揭示了内部人士的交易丑闻。
6.He was an early, vocal and consistent advocate of co-ordinated global fiscal stimulus, advice that in hindsight seems remarkably prescient.
一开始他就强烈呼吁全球合作进行经济刺激，事后看来这是非常有先见之明的。
7.Shortly after the book came out, Niederhoffer took Galt to lunch at the Four Seasons and told her that her book had been prescient.
小说出版后不久，尼德霍夫就带高特去四季酒店吃饭，并告诉她他知道她会写这样的书。
8.As a guide to the sworn enemy, capitalism, however, Marx was more prescient.
然而，作为反对资本主义这个死敌的向导，马克思对资本主义的看法却颇有先见之明。
9.Now that the president has belatedly followed his advice and the "surge" appears to be working, Mr McCain looks both bold and prescient.
既然总统后来（过晚地）实施了他的建议，而且“增兵”似乎有了效果，麦凯恩先生看来是既大胆又有先见之明。
10.David Rosenberg is not a very bullish guy - yet his pessimism about the U. S. economy in recent years has proven prescient.
维•罗森伯格（DavidRosenberg）不是一个喜欢看多的人，不过最近几年他对美国经济的悲观论调，事实证明确实是有先见之明的。