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vista
1、 A distant view.
2、 An extensive mental view, as over a stretch of time.
🌱The economic vista for the next two years looks excellent, according to a poll of business economists. 🌳Vista is generally used today for broad sweeping views of the kind you might see from a mountaintop. But the word originally meant an avenue-like view, narrowed by a line of trees on either side. And vista has also long been used （like view and outlook） to mean a mental scan of the future—as if you were riding down a long grand avenue and what you could see a mile or so ahead of you was where you'd be in the very near future. vis-à-vis In relation to or compared with.
🌱Many financial reporters worry about the loss of U.S. economic strength vis-à-vis our principal trading partners. 🌳Vis-à-vis comes from Latin by way of French, where it means literally "face-to-face." In English it was first used to mean a little horse-drawn carriage in which two people sat opposite each other. From there it acquired various other meanings, such as "dancing partner." Today it no longer refers to actual physical faces and bodies, but its modern meaning comes from the fact that things that are face-to-face can easily be compared or contrasted. So, for example, a greyhound is very tall vis-à-vis a Scottie, and the Red Sox have often fared badly vis-à-vis the Yankees. visionary 1、 A person with foresight and imagination.
2、 A dreamer whose ideas are often impractical.
🌱His followers regarded him as an inspired visionary; his opponents saw him as either a con man or a lunatic. 🌳A visionary is someone with a strong vision of the future. Since such visions aren't always accurate, a visionary's ideas may either work brilliantly or fail miserably. Even so, visionary is usually a positive word. Martin Luther King, Jr., for instance, was a visionary in his hopes and ideas for a just society. The word is also an adjective; thus, for example, we may speak of a visionary project, a visionary leader, a visionary painter, or a visionary company. envisage To have a mental picture of; visualize.
🌱A mere three weeks after they had started dating, the two were already arguing, and none of us could envisage the relationship lasting for long. 🌳One of the imagination's most valuable uses is its ability to see something in the "mind's eye"—that is, to visualize, envision, or envisage something. Envisaging a possibility may be one of the chief abilities that separate human beings from the other animals. What we envisage may be physical （such as a completed piece of furniture） or nonphysical （such as finishing college）. Envisaging life with a puppy might lead us down to the pound to buy one, and envisaging the sinking of an island nation may focus our minds on climate change.
2、 An extensive mental view, as over a stretch of time.
🌱The economic vista for the next two years looks excellent, according to a poll of business economists. 🌳Vista is generally used today for broad sweeping views of the kind you might see from a mountaintop. But the word originally meant an avenue-like view, narrowed by a line of trees on either side. And vista has also long been used （like view and outlook） to mean a mental scan of the future—as if you were riding down a long grand avenue and what you could see a mile or so ahead of you was where you'd be in the very near future. vis-à-vis In relation to or compared with.
🌱Many financial reporters worry about the loss of U.S. economic strength vis-à-vis our principal trading partners. 🌳Vis-à-vis comes from Latin by way of French, where it means literally "face-to-face." In English it was first used to mean a little horse-drawn carriage in which two people sat opposite each other. From there it acquired various other meanings, such as "dancing partner." Today it no longer refers to actual physical faces and bodies, but its modern meaning comes from the fact that things that are face-to-face can easily be compared or contrasted. So, for example, a greyhound is very tall vis-à-vis a Scottie, and the Red Sox have often fared badly vis-à-vis the Yankees. visionary 1、 A person with foresight and imagination.
2、 A dreamer whose ideas are often impractical.
🌱His followers regarded him as an inspired visionary; his opponents saw him as either a con man or a lunatic. 🌳A visionary is someone with a strong vision of the future. Since such visions aren't always accurate, a visionary's ideas may either work brilliantly or fail miserably. Even so, visionary is usually a positive word. Martin Luther King, Jr., for instance, was a visionary in his hopes and ideas for a just society. The word is also an adjective; thus, for example, we may speak of a visionary project, a visionary leader, a visionary painter, or a visionary company. envisage To have a mental picture of; visualize.
🌱A mere three weeks after they had started dating, the two were already arguing, and none of us could envisage the relationship lasting for long. 🌳One of the imagination's most valuable uses is its ability to see something in the "mind's eye"—that is, to visualize, envision, or envisage something. Envisaging a possibility may be one of the chief abilities that separate human beings from the other animals. What we envisage may be physical （such as a completed piece of furniture） or nonphysical （such as finishing college）. Envisaging life with a puppy might lead us down to the pound to buy one, and envisaging the sinking of an island nation may focus our minds on climate change.
VIS comes from a Latin verb meaning "see." Vision is what enables us to see, visual images are visible to our eyes, and a visitor is someone who comes to see something. The same verb actually gives us another root, vid-, as in Julius Caesar's famous statement about his military exploits, "Veni, vidi, vici" ("I came, I saw, I conquered"), and such common English words as video.🌸