prospect

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
英 /ˈpɹɒspɛkt/    美 /ˈpɹɑspɛkt/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The region which the eye overlooks at one time; view; scene; outlook.
    — As when a Scout[…]Obtains the brow of ſome high-climbing Hill, / Which to his eye diſcovers unaware / The goodly proſpect of ſome forein land / Firſt-ſeen, or ſome renownd Metropolis / With gliſtering Spires and Pinnacles adornd, / Which now the Riſing Sun guilds with his beams.
  2. A picturesque or panoramic view; a landscape; hence, a sketch of a landscape.
    — I went to Putney, and other places on the Thames, to take prospects in crayon, to carry into France, where I thought to have them engraved.
  3. A position affording a fine view; a lookout.
    — Him God beholding from his proſpect high, / Wherein paſt, preſent, future he beholds, / Thus to his onely Son forſeeing ſpake.
  4. Relative position of the front of a building or other structure; face; relative aspect.
    — Their prospect was toward the south.
  5. The act of looking forward; foresight; anticipation.
    — a very ill prospect of a future state
  6. The potential things that may come to pass, often favorable.
    — The result, therefore, of this physical inquiry is, that we find no vestige of a beginning,— no prospect of an end.
  7. A hope; a hopeful.
    — The most persistent tormentor was Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain, who scored a hat-trick in last month’s corresponding fixture in Iceland. His ability to run at defences is instantly striking, but it is his clever use of possession that has persuaded some shrewd judges that he is an even better prospect than Theo Walcott.
  8. Any player whose rights are owned by a top-level professional team, but who has yet to play a game for said team.
  9. A potential client or customer.
  10. The façade of an organ.
动词 v.
  1. To search, as for gold. intransitive
    — Among the ancient sites in the Taklamakan Desert which are frequented by Khotan "treasure seekers," and which the prospecting parties sent out by me had visited, none seemed to offer better opportunities for systematic excavations than the one known to them as Dandan-Uilik.
  2. To have or afford a view; to face or look out. intransitive,obsolete
    — This poynte ſemethe as though it woolde inuade the monte Atlas in Aphrica. Foꝛ it pꝛoſpectethe [translating spectat] towarde that parte of Aphꝛike, whiche the poꝛtugales caule Caput Bonæ Sperantiæ.
  3. To determine which minerals or metals are present in a location.
  4. To look or face towards; to view. obsolete,transitive
    — Beynge therfoꝛe ioyfull and gladde of the frendeſhyppe of owre men, he tooke the capitaine by the hand and bꝛought him with certeine of his familiars to the higheſt towre of his palaice, from whenſe they myght proſpecte [translating dispectare] the mayne ſea.

词形变化

prospects plural prospects present,singular,third-person prospecting participle,present prospected participle,past prospected past prospects present,singular,third-person prospecting participle,present prospected participle,past prospected past

词汇关系

衍生词
Mount Prospect nonprospect prospectless Prospect Vale unqualified prospect bioprospect prospector unprospected

词源

词源 1
From Middle English prospecte, from Latin prōspectus (“view, sight, prospect; panorama”), from prōspiciō (“to look forward”) + -tus (suffix forming action nouns), from pro (“before, forward”) + speciō, spiciō (“to look, to see”). By surface analysis, pro- + -spect. Doublet of prospectus and prospekt. The verb is from the noun.
词源 2
Learned borrowing from Latin prōspectō.
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