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

• 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。
• 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。
• This thesis on the research done after the theory of foreshadowing.
  这对以后论文的研究做了理论上的铺垫。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• This is my usual trick of foreshadowing.
  这是我惯用伎俩的伏笔。
• 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。