Prospect

(noun.) the possibility of future success; 'his prospects as a writer are excellent'.

(verb.) explore for useful or valuable things or substances, such as minerals.

(verb.) search for something desirable; 'prospect a job'.

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• As I had had some previous experience with the statements of mining men, I concluded I would just send down a small plant and prospect the field before putting up a large one. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• I don't disguise from myself, or from you, I went on, that the prospect before us is more than doubtful. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• I really see no prospect of throwing any light whatever on this extraordinary affair. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• At length, I got up whenever I saw him coming, and standing on the foot-board, pretended to look at the prospect; after which I did very well. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• I was left helpless, with the prospect of a coming incumbrance in the shape of a child. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• Sir John Herschel, in an address before the British Association on September 10, said that the year past had given prospect of a new planet. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• Still, to get to Egypt, was something, in the eyes of the unfortunate colonists, hopeless as the prospect seemed of ever getting further. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• The marriages of either were discussed; and their prospects in life canvassed with the greatest frankness and interest on both sides. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• Raymond, while he knew that his plans and prospects were to be discussed and decided during the expected debate, was gay and careless. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• This done, I wrote to Marian, to tell her that I was safe and well, and that I had fair prospects of success. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• Many that want food and clothing have cheerier lives and brighter prospects than she had; many, harassed by poverty, are in a strait less afflictive. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• On my being settled at Doctor Strong's I wrote to her again, detailing my happy condition and prospects. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• I was a happy and successful man, Mr. Holmes, and on the eve of being married, when a sudden and dreadful misfortune wrecked all my prospects in life. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯回忆录.
• I do admire them--as bright prospects. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• He does this strange prospecting with an amount of gravity that can never be estimated or appreciated by a man who has not seen the operation. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• The next I heard of Frank was that he was in Montana, and then he went prospecting in Arizona, and then I heard of him from New Mexico. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.

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