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

• 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。
• At breakfast, his son plays out an accident between toy cars and brings in a toy ambulance, foreshadowing the final death scene.
  早餐时，他的儿子扮演了一起玩具车事故并带来了一个玩具救护车，铺垫最后的死亡场景。
• This part is the foreshadowing, for below link suicide phenomenon and frustration education.
  这个部分的内容是为下文将自杀现象和挫折教育联系起来作铺垫。
• Foreshadowing a criticism often levelled at him today, she said: Though he speaks sweet words there is also that coolness.
  她写道：尽管他会讲甜言蜜语，但依然可以感觉到他的冷漠。这段带有预兆性的评论也是奥巴马现在经常受到的批评之一。
• 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。
• It can also play a foreshadowing role in the research of event game theory.
  也可以为事件对策论的研究起到一个铺垫作用。
• 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。
• 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 episode carries a foreshadowing of what is to follow later on in the story.
  这件事为以后情节的发展埋下了伏笔。
• 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。