forecast

vt. 预报，预测；预示

n. 预测，预报；预想

vi. 进行预报，作预测

中文词源

forecast 预测

fore-,在前。cast, 投射。用于天气预报。

forecast (v.): late 14c., "to scheme," from fore- "before" + casten in the sense of "contrive, plan, prepare" (late 14c.; see cast (v.)). Meaning "predict events" first attested late 15c. (cast (v.) "to perceive, notice" is from late 14c.). Related: Forecasting.
Whether we are to say forecast or forecasted in the past tense & participle depends on whether we regard the verb or the noun as the original from which the other is formed; ... The verb is in fact recorded 150 years earlier than the noun, & we may therefore thankfully rid ourselves of the ugly forecasted; it may be hoped that we should do so even if history were against us, but this time it is kind. [Fowler, 1926]
forecast (n.): early 15c., "forethought, prudence," probably from forecast (v.). Meaning "conjectured estimate of a future course" is from 1670s. A Middle English word for weather forecasting was aeromancy.

3. Many traders forecast a continuation of the market's recent bearish trend.: 很多交易商都预测最近市场的下跌趋势还将延续。

4. There was considerable scepticism about the Chancellor's forecast of a booming economy.: 有相当多的人对财政大臣作出的经济会迅猛发展的预测表示怀疑。

5. The study also forecast an explosion in the diet soft-drink market.: 该研究还预测低糖软饮料市场将迅猛增长。