"Well, then, of course I don't pretend to foreknowledge; but I do to experience, and you know experience teaches the wise."英文原著 · 《A Woman-Hater》
/The Old Man./--Who would live, my son, if the future were revealed to him?--when a single anticipated misfortune gives us so much useless uneasiness--when the foreknowledge of one certain calamity is enough to embitter every day that precedes it! It is better not to pry too curiously, even into the things which surround us. Heaven, which has given us the power of reflection to foresee our necessities, gave us also those very necessities to set limits to its exercise.英文原著 · 《Paul and Virginia》
"I told him," said the servant, "that you were sick. He said he knew you were, and therefore he came to speak with you. I told him that you were asleep. He seemed to have a foreknowledge of that, too, and said that therefore he must speak with you. What is to be said to him, lady? for he seems fortified against all denial, and will speak with you, whether you will or no."英文原著 · 《Tales From Shakespeare》
He unfolds, not very clearly, a whole theory of human nature. The truth in his system seems to be, that more is involved in moral freedom than mere volition , that the whole soul, including the intellect, is involved in it; and that a preferential feeling, as he calls it, is an essential part of it, -- pointing to the fact that there may be preference or choice not amounting to full volition, but implying responsibility. He shows that the freedom he advocates may be compatible with divine foreknowledge.英文原著 · 《The Scottish Philosophy》
The lower jaw of Captain Lorrimer sagged, and his whisper came out in jerking syllables: "God Almighty!" Then Blondy went for his gun, and Vic waited with his hand on the butt of his own, waited with a perfect, cold foreknowledge, heard Blondy moan as his Colt hung in the holster, saw the flash of the barrel as it whipped out, and then jerked his own weapon and fired from the hip. Blondy staggered but kept himself from falling by gripping the edge of the bar with his left hand; the right, still holding the gun, raised and rubbed across his forehead; he looked like a sleeper awakening.英文原著 · 《The Seventh Man》
The email links to corporate minutes that clearly indicate a foreknowledge of hazard that resulted in catastrophic harm and loss of life.美剧 · 《House of Cards》
We had no foreknowledge of what the Chinese would do with the supplied IP addresses.美剧 · 《The Good Wife》
"Lack of foreknowledge" didn't work for you, so now you're gonna go after Shen Yuan?美剧 · 《The Good Wife》