词汇释义
prudent TEM4 TEM8 GRE
UK /ˈpruː.dənt/ US /ˈpruː.dənt/
adj, Someone who is prudent is sensible and careful.审慎的，慎重的，精明的
外刊例句
1. She said her department intends to determine if the utility’s expenditures were reasonable and if its preparations were prudent.(Seattle Times)
2. The point of that autonomy is to keep political concerns, such as a presidential election, from preventing prudent policy.(New York Times)
3. There’s no reason to suffer through high unemployment just because the Republicans think it’s prudent to shrink the number,” said Gabriel Mathy, assistant professor of economics at American University.(Seattle Times)
4. As the polls closed in key states on Tuesday, TV networks held off on projecting winners throughout much of their election night coverage, promising a prudent, go-slow approach to avoid the up-is-down shocks of 2016.(New York Times)
5. “Workers would owe the money, so it would be prudent to think through how they would pay it back and when,” said Edward Karl, the AICPA’s vice president of taxation.(Washington Post)
6. “It is not going to eliminate the need to be prudent and careful with our public health measures,” Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said last month.(The Verge)
7. “It would be prudent for the SEC to request confirmation that the settlement agreement was complied with,” Shill told me.(The Verge)
8. If you don't use a lot of cellular data and are willing to experiment with new technology, Fi may be a prudent choice.(Fox News)
9. “In light of this information, it was not prudent for the department’s exchanges to continue selling them.”(Wall Street Journal)
10. Such proof, as Cahill explained, is "based upon reason and common sense" and how "ordinarily prudent men and women would act upon in their most important affairs."(Fox News)
11. “What we are trying to do is re-open in a prudent way, so as not to lose control and plan our next steps,” he said.(Reuters)
12. “I think it’s the prudent thing to do. I think it’s real — this is a rare, but real association,” said Paul A. Offit, a vaccine specialist at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia.(Washington Post)
词汇搭配
prudent course, decision, management, thing | seem, be pudent | consider, think sth prudent | very, reasonably, financially, fiscally, politically prudent
词汇来源
late 14c., "wise, discerning, judicious," from Old French prudent "with knowledge, deliberate" (c. 1300) and directly from Latin prudentem (nominative prudens) "knowing, skilled, sagacious, circumspect;" rarely in literal sense "foreseeing;" contraction of providens, present participle of providere "look ahead, prepare, supply, act with foresight," from pro "ahead" (see pro-) + videre "to see".The sense gradually grew to emphasize the notions of "discreet, circumspect; careful of self-interest." As a noun, "wise ones, skillful ones," late 14c. Related: Prudently.
近义词
discreet, intelligent, judicious, cautious,sage, sapient, sensible, wise, astute, perspicacious, sagacious, shrewd
反义词
imprudent, indiscreet, injudicious careless, heedless, incautious, rash,improvident, shortsighted, foolish, unwise
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