a strong feeling that something is about to happen, especially something unpleasant (尤指不祥的)预感 he had a premonition of imminent disaster. 他有一种灾难临头的预感。
派生 premonitory adjective 语源
mid 16th cent. (in the sense 'advance warning'): from French prémonition, from late Latin praemonitio(n-), from Latin praemonere, from prae 'before' + monere 'warn'