By reflecting on Americans' previous failures in predicting earthquakes.
出自-2010年6月聽力原文
柯林斯高階英漢雙解學(xué)習詞典釋義
VERB
預(yù)言;預(yù)測;預(yù)告
If you predict an event, you say that it will happen.
例句
The latest opinion polls are predicting a very close contest...最近的民意測驗預(yù)測競爭將會非常激烈。He predicted that my hair would grow back 'in no time'...他預(yù)言我的頭發(fā)“一眨眼”就會長回來。