clairvoyant

英 [kleə'vɒɪənt] 美[klɛr'vɔɪənt]

GRE畅通词汇

复数: clairvoyants;名词: clairvoyance;

clairvoyant (n.): 1834 in the psychic sense; see clairvoyant (adj.). Earlier it was used in the sense "clear-sighted person" (1794). Fem. form was Clairvoyante.
clairvoyant (adj.): "having psychic gifts," 1837, earlier "having insight" (1670s), from special use of French clairvoyant "clear-sighted, discerning, judicious" (13c.), from clair (see clear (adj.)) + voyant "seeing," present participle of voir, from Latin videre "to see" (see vision).

1. You did not have to be a clairvoyant to see that the war would go on.: 就算没有未卜先知的能力也能料到战争会持续下去。

3. It is said the love is blind but friendship is clairvoyant.: 据说爱情令人盲目,而友谊却能让人醍醐灌顶.

4. Open a window that commercial port is clairvoyant China latter - day socioeconomic oneself.: 自开商埠是透视中国近代社会经济的一个窗口.

5. Those whom are clairvoyant have often come to understand past lives.: 那些能透视的人们已能经常理解死去的生命.