预示

• 拼音: yù shì
• 汉字拆解: 预 = 予 + 页 (in advance); 示 = 礻+ 二 (altar/spirit + two lines — heaven showing signs)

含义

To foreshadow; to portend; to indicate in advance; to presage. Something serving as a sign or signal of what is to come.

Used when an observable phenomenon is interpreted as a harbinger of a future development. Unlike 预告 (advance announcement by an agent), 预示 is about signs or phenomena that implicitly signal future events. Common in literary criticism, historical analysis, economic commentary, and scientific discourse. The subject is typically a sign, event, or phenomenon, not a person.

例句

1. 这项基因组学成果的发布，不仅是重大突破，也预示精准医疗时代正全面到来。
2. 古代史官常把异常天象和灾异记录为预示王朝兴衰的征兆，这种观念长期影响帝制政治。
3. 这场局部金融危机预示的，不只是几家机构的坏账问题，更是高杠杆金融模式的脆弱性。

用法指南

语境: analysis, history, economics, literary criticism

语气: analytical

正确说法

• 这一系列深层制度改革的启动，预示着中国政治经济体制未来十到二十年将出现根本性重组。(The launch of this series of deep institutional reforms foreshadows that China's political and economic system will undergo a fundamental restructuring over the next ten to twenty years.)
• 从后见之明看，那时频繁的动乱、萧条和知识分子精神危机，预示着旧秩序的崩溃与新力量的崛起。(In hindsight, the frequent unrest, depression, and intellectual spiritual crisis at that time foreshadowed the collapse of the old order and the rise of new forces.)

错误说法

• 这朵云预示着下雨 — 预示 can be used for natural signs, but 预兆 (omen/portent) or 意味着 (indicate/mean) are more natural for weather; 预示 sounds slightly literary in everyday weather conversation

起源与历史

预 (in advance) + 示 (to show/indicate — 礻altar/spirit radical + 二 two horizontal lines, the gods showing signs from heaven). Together: signs shown in advance.

文化背景

世代: All ages

社会背景: Universal