foreshadowing

英 [fɔːˈʃædəʊɪŋ]

美 [fɔːrˈʃædoʊɪŋ]

v.  预示; 是…的预兆
foreshadow的现在分词

复数：foreshadowings　

BNC.48591 / COCA.31132

柯林斯词典

• VERB 预示;是…的预兆
  If somethingforeshadowsan event or situation, it suggests that it will happen.
  1. The disappointing sales figures foreshadow more redundancies...
     令人失望的销售额预示着会有更多人被裁员。
  2. The change proposed last month was foreshadowed in the March Budget.
     上个月提议的变动在 3 月份的预算中已经有所预兆了。

英英释义

noun

• the act of providing vague advance indications
  Synonym:prefigurationadumbration

adj

• indistinctly prophetic
  Synonym:adumbrativeprefigurative

双语例句

• On the other hand, the girls themselves, while expecting a wife and mother future, are already foreshadowing some of the changes in values that would characterise the60s.
  另一方面，女孩们在等待担任妻子与母亲时，早已预示六十年代某些价值观将会改变。
• Open-minded is an accomplishment, but requires generosity as a foreshadowing.
  豁达是一种修养，却需要大度作为铺垫。
• Part Three: the relationships between suspense and foreshadowing and between sudden conversion and good organization.
  第三部分：悬念与伏笔、突转和照应之间的关系。
• These changes profoundly affected the political circumstances at that time, foreshadowing the following changed situation.
  甲午战后北洋的这些变动，深刻地影响了当时政局，并为其后事态的发展埋下了伏笔。
• The second chapter introduced Giddens 'Theory of Structuration from the basic concept and key questions of Theory of Structuration, made the most basic theory foreshadowing for understanding Giddens' trilogy.
  第二章从结构化理论的基本概念、所关注的核心问题等方面，对吉登斯的结构化理论进行了介绍，为理解吉登斯的三部曲做了最基本的理论铺垫。
• The ones that passed to the relevant concepts of International Maritime Organization and famous scholar's proposition defined comparative analysis afterwards, have put forward the definition the fraud in bill of lading by myself, has done essential theory foreshadowing for the discussion of the following problem.
  随后通过对国际海事组织相关概念和著名学者提出的定义比较分析，提出了自己对提单欺诈的定义，为下面问题的探讨作了必要的理论铺垫。
• This part of contents do foreshadowing for following chapter two and three.
  这一部分内容为其后的第二章和第三章做铺垫作用。
• Food seemed no longer to nourish him, for each morning his face had caught more of the ghastly foreshadowing of death.
  食物似乎对他失去了营养作用，因为每天早晨，他脸上那种接近死亡的灰暗色总要加深一层。
• The decline of Chinese Oceanic Culture draws the foreshadowing of Chinese history.
  中国海洋文化的衰弱，为近代中国历史定势埋下伏笔。
• This part of the political psychology of college students have a negative reason was foreshadowing.
  这一部分为分析大学生产生消极政治心理的原因作了铺垫。