foreshadow

英 [fɔːˈʃædəʊ]

美 [fɔːrˈʃædoʊ]

v.  预示; 是…的预兆

过去式：foreshadowed　过去分词：foreshadowed　第三人称单数：foreshadows　现在分词：foreshadowing　

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BNC.18942 / COCA.15685

牛津词典

verb

• 预示；是…的预兆
  to be a sign of sth that will happen in the future

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

verb

• indicate by signs
  1. These signs bode bad news
  Synonym:bodeportendauspicateprognosticateomenpresagebetokenaugurforetellprefigureforecastpredict

双语例句

• The end of 20th and the beginning of the 21~ ( st) centuries witnessed great changes in the study of aesthetics in China, which are closely related to the study of Marxist aesthetics and foreshadow the future developments in this specific area.
  20世纪末与21世纪初，中国美学研究正在经历着一次重要的转换。这一转换与中国已往马克思美学思想研究有着深层的联系，同时也昭示了今后的发展前景。
• Everything is brought together into a disturbing foreshadow of dreadful secrets.
  每一件事汇集到一起，预示着一个惊天的秘密，让人惶恐不安。
• The questions it raises foreshadow much of the subject matter of this anthology.
  它掀起的问题是提前预示了很多这次选文的本质问题。
• The first is that they foreshadow an emerging international orthodoxy.
  第一是因为这些措施有利于跨国银行的健康发展。
• The two authors both based on their wandering life to foreshadow rich experience for their creation so as to form the tragic consciousness of life;
  两位作家都以流浪生活的体验为基础，为创作铺垫了丰富的生活底蕴，形成了生命的悲剧意识；
• But what we'll do, just to foreshadow a little bit, what I'll do at the beginning of the next lecture is what's at the end of your notes here.
  给大家一个提示，我们下节课开始要讲的将是，你们讲义上这部分的最后。
• Her early days certainly didn't foreshadow a speed skater who would donate$ 10,000 out of her own bank account to the humanitarian group Right To Play after winning gold at the2006 Turin Olympics.
  在赢得2006年都灵奥运会金牌之后，她从自己的银行账户中拿出10000加元捐助给了人道主义组织“体育权力组织”。她早年的生活显然没有预示出成为一名速度滑冰运动员的先兆。
• The answers in the first area foreshadow most of the rest.
  而第一个问题的答案恰巧预示了其余几个方面。
• 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。
• No ancient polity ever embodied constitutional democracy, and one dares to hope that ancient tragedy did not even foreshadow it.
  古代政治制度在实践上并没有立宪国民代议制，而且可以料想，他们也不曾在悲剧方面“预料”到这种制度。