prospective
prospective
adjective
prospectively
adverb
prospectiveness
noun
语源
adjective
- [attrib.](of a person) expected or expecting to be something particular in the future
（人）预期的，盼望中的
she showed a prospective buyer around the house.
她领着可能成为买主的人看房子。
■likely to happen at a future date; concerned with or applying to the future
未来可能发生的；未来的
a meeting to discuss prospective changes in government legislation.
讨论政府立法未来可能变化的会议。
prospectively
adverb
prospectiveness
noun
语源
- late 16th cent. (in the sense 'looking forward, having foresight'): from obsolete French prospectif, -ive or late Latin prospectivus, from Latin prospectus 'view' (see prospect)
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