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

• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• Foreshadowing evil or disaster; ominous.
  不祥的预示罪恶或灾难的；不祥预兆的。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。