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

• 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。
• Because the Soviet leaders refused reform, crises and contradictions piled up, foreshadowing the final collapse of the Soviet Union.
  由于苏联领导人拒绝改革，使得危机和矛盾不断聚集，给苏联的最终解体打下了伏笔。
• 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。
• 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。
• These days, however, the G20 looks more like it is foreshadowing the international conflicts of the 21st century.
  然而，眼下G20看上去更像是在预示着21世纪将是国际冲突的时代。
• 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。
• Luke is foreshadowing the book of Acts in this chapter with Jesus'sermon because Jesus himself doesn't go preach to Gentiles.
  路加福音中耶稣布道这章，是使徒行传的预示，因为耶稣本人不与外邦人传道。
• 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。
• This is my usual trick of foreshadowing.
  这是我惯用伎俩的伏笔。
• 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。