Future

(noun.) bulk commodities bought or sold at an agreed price for delivery at a specified future date.

(noun.) a verb tense that expresses actions or states in the future.

(noun.) the time yet to come.

(adj.) yet to be or coming; 'some future historian will evaluate him' .

(adj.) effective in or looking toward the future; 'he was preparing for future employment opportunities' .

(adj.) a verb tense or other formation referring to events or states that have not yet happened; 'future auxiliary' .

(adj.) (of elected officers) elected but not yet serving; 'our next president' .

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• But here there was nothing to be shifted off in a wild speculation on the future. 简·奥斯汀. 爱玛.
• Can you speak of the future as if you were certain of it? 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• A cocoanut shell always has a soft spot at one end because this is the provision nature has made to allow the embryo of the future tree to push its way out of the hard shell. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• She masked her hatred of her husband under the cloak of a mother's solicitude for her son's future. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Your army will cheerfully suffer many privations to break up Hood's army and render it useless for future operations. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• So that the progress of future inventions depends on the outcome of the great economic, industrial, and social battles which are now looming on the pathway of the future. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• Arise, my liegemen, and be good subjects in future. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• Her mind, disposition, opinions, and habits wanted no half-concealment, no self-deception on the present, no reliance on future improvement. 简·奥斯汀. 曼斯菲尔德庄园.
• The terms were severe, but they left it possible for her to hope for an honourable future. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• The swiftness with which the papers displaced the gruesome details of the little girl's death by exultation over the business future of the city was a caution. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• I cannot precisely define what they expected, but it was something pleasant: not perhaps that day or that month, but at an indefinite future period. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• But come, I will lift a portion of the veil, and place you in possession of facts which may be of use to you in the future. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
• I didn't have much faith that it would work, expecting that I might possibly hear a word or so that would give hope of a future for the idea. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• I shall counsel her to tell her future husband the whole story and to trust to his generosity. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• From the angle of statecraft the future of the movement may be said to depend upon the wise use of this raw and scattered power. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• I have long been wanting, Thomasin, he began, to say something about a matter that concerns both our futures. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.

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