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predictable

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adj.可预言的

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predictable


/-əbl; -əbl/
adj
(a) that can be predicted可预言的; 可预报的
*predictable behaviour, results, weather 可预料的行为、结果、天气.
(b) (often derog 常作贬义) (of a person) behaving in a way that can be predicted (指人)举动可以料到的
*I knew you'd say that you're so predictable! 我早就知道你会这样说--果不其然!
* Opposition to the proposal came from predictablequarters. 对这项提案的反对意见来自那些早经料到会持反对态度的人.

predictable


adj
if something or someone is predictable, you know what will happen or what they will do - sometimes used to show disapproval
 The snow had a predictable effect on traffic.
 an entertaining but predictable film
 Logan's reaction was predictable.
>predictablyadv [sentence adverb]
 Predictably, no one was home when I called.
>predictability [prɪ,dɪktə'bɪlɪti/
1. The result is predictable.
    结果是可想而知的。

2. This realization now entered my life like a flow of water dividing previously dry and solid ground, creating two banks, one of which was my past — so familiar and predictable that even my unhappiness then made me happy now just to think of it;
    这种认识就象一股水流一样流进我的生活,把先前干涸坚实的土地一分为二,造成了河流的两岸。河岸的一边是我的过去——这对我来说是如此熟悉, 如此地可以预料,以至于我只要想到它,原先使我感到不快的东西也会使现在的我变得开心起来。

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