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

• Threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments.
  预示着不幸或者悲惨的发展。
• On the Artistry of Foreshadowing in Hardy's A Pair of Blue Eyes
  哈代《一双蓝蓝的眼睛》中伏笔艺术探究
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• Chinese companies are increasingly aiming for contracts in the US and other mature economies, potentially foreshadowing a reshaping of the global rail industry.
  中国企业越来越多地瞄准美国和其他成熟经济体中的合同，有改变全球铁路行业面貌的势头。
• Well Jesus! So Melchizedek is simply a foreshadowing, he's a sign of Jesus.
  耶稣，所以麦基洗德只是一个伏笔，他是耶稣的迹象。
• Because he is in front of a foreshadowing of that to buy Chinese stocks take some of the special procedures.
  因为他的前面是一个铺垫的，要购买中国股票的考虑一些特别程序。