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预料

yù liào

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 level 6 2-character word Traditional 預料

预料 (yù liào) means "to forecast". It is an HSK 3.0 level 6 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 预料 means

1. to forecast
2. to anticipate
3. expectation

The characters in 预料

• 预yùto advance; in advance; beforehand
• 料liàomaterial; stuff; grain

Example sentences

• 我预料会有麻烦。
  Wǒ yùliào huì yǒu máfan.
  I anticipate that there will be trouble.
• 汤姆预料这会发生。
  Tom expected this to happen.
• 它现代化的程度远远超乎我的预料。
  Tā xiàndàihuà de chéngdù yuǎnyuǎn chāo hū wǒ de yùliào.
  Its level of modernisation far exceeded my expectations.
• 跨国公司预料到了规模经济的实行。
  Kuàguógōngsī yùliào dào le guīmó jīngjì de shíxíng.
  The multinational corporation has forecast the implementation of economies of scale.

Words containing 预料

• 出乎预料chū hū yù liàobeyond expectation (idiom); unexpected

Where 预料 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · yù (HSK 6), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 6 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read yù liào correctly.
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