Tra từ envisage - Từ điển Oxford Advanced Learner 8th

en·vis·age [envisage envisages envisaged envisaging] BrE [ɪnˈvɪzɪdʒ] NAmE [ɪnˈvɪzɪdʒ] (especially BrE) (NAmE usually en·vis·ion) verb
to imagine what will happen in the future
•~ sth What level of profit do you envisage?
•~ (sb) doing sth I can't envisage her coping with this job.
•I don't envisage working with him again.
•it is envisaged that… It is envisaged that the talks will take place in the spring.
•~ that… I envisage that the work will be completed next year.
•~ how, where, etc… It is difficult to envisage how people will react.
See also: ↑envision
Verb forms:

Word Origin:
early 19th cent.: from French envisager, from en- ‘in’ + visage ‘face’.

Synonyms:
imagine
think • see • envisage • envision
These words all mean to form an idea in your mind of what sb/sth might be like.
imagine • to form an idea in your mind of what sb/sth might be like: ▪ The house was just as she had imagined it.
think • to imagine sth that might happen or might have happened: ▪ We couldn't think where you'd gone. ◇ ▪ Just think ▪ — this time tomorrow we'll be lying on a beach.
see • to consider sth as a future possibility; to imagine sb as sth: ▪ I can't see her changing her mind. ◇ ▪ His colleagues see him as a future director.
envisage • (especially BrE) to imagine what will happen in the future: ▪ I don't envisage working with him again.
The usual word for this in American English is envision (see below).
envision • to imagine what a situation will be like in the future, especially a situation that you intend to work towards: ▪ They envision an equal society, free from poverty and disease.
Envision is used especially in business and political contexts. In North American English it is also used as another form of the word envisage: ▪ I don't envision working with him again.
to imagine/see/envisage/envision sb/sth as sth
to imagine/see/envisage/envision (sb) doing sth
to imagine/think/see/envisage/envision who/what/how…
to imagine/think/envisage/envision that…

Example Bank:
•I cannot envisage myself playing again next season
•It was never envisaged that this would be a long-term solution.
•It was originally envisaged that the talks would take place in the spring.
•Eventually she did end up involved in politics, but not in the way she had originally envisaged.
•I can't envisage her coping very well with the job.
•I don't envisage working with him again.