喜樂美語
  1. 1nB2/prɪˈdɪkʃən/預測；預言

    a statement about what you think will happen in the future, or the act of saying that.

    示範例句 · Example

    It's too early to make any predictions about the test results.

    逐字現在太早去做任何關於考試結果的預測。

    「prediction」是「你覺得未來會發生什麼」的說法，或「做出這個說法」的動作。常見搭配 make a prediction（做出預測）、an accurate prediction（準確的預測）、confirm a prediction（證實預測是對的）。prediction 跟 forecast 容易搞混——prediction 是一般人根據想法或資料說出的未來看法；forecast 多用在天氣、經濟這類「有專業資料做出來的公開預報」。prophecy 則帶有神奇或宗教力量的味道。核心意思可以想成：先把「可能會發生的事」說出來，再等時間來檢驗。

    常見搭配

    • make a prediction

      做出預測

      to say what you think will happen

      Before the experiment, each group made a prediction.

    • confirm a prediction

      證實預測

      to show that a prediction was right

      The second test confirmed our prediction.

    • an accurate / correct prediction

      準確／正確的預測

      a prediction that matches what really happens

      Jane's prediction proved to be accurate.

    • a confident prediction

      很有把握的預測

      a prediction you think is probably right

      It is hard to make a confident prediction about tomorrow's weather.

    • prediction of / about (something)

      關於……的預測

      a prediction that concerns a particular topic

      There were many predictions about the election results.

    • test a prediction

      檢驗預測

      to check whether a prediction is right, often in science

      We will test both predictions in the lab tomorrow.

core核心畫面

Picture someone saying now what they think will be true later — the forecast, the guess about the score, the economist's number for next year. The word covers both the sentence itself and the act of making it, and it is always spoken before the event, never after.

可以想成：一個人現在就說出他認為之後會發生的事——天氣預報、對比數的猜測、經濟學家給明年的數字。這個字同時涵蓋「那句話」和「說出那句話這件事」，而且永遠是在事情發生之前說的。事後才說的判斷不是 prediction。

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複數 predictions

原始詞典資料2 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

predictionnoun/pɹɪˈdɪkʃən/

  • 1

    A statement of what will happen in the future.

    • make predictions about something
    • correct prediction
  • 2

    mathematicssciencesstatisticsA probability estimation based on statistical methods.

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