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

• 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。
• 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 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• Threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments.
  预示着不幸或者悲惨的发展。
• This is my usual trick of foreshadowing.
  这是我惯用伎俩的伏笔。
• Usually the warm foreshadowing of things to come arrives on a Wednesday or Thursday when most of us are stuck in some room staring out a window wanting to enjoy the joy of its arrival.
  通常暖暖阳光都会在星期三或星期四如期而至，这时我们都会伫立在房间里，渴盼地探出窗外，分享沐浴阳光的那份雀跃不已。
• His brother, of course, does just that, his behaviour foreshadowing our own unfortunate obsession with personal rights and cravings.
  当然他的兄弟就放弃了，就像我们也会遗憾地痴迷于个人的权利欲望。