foreshadow

英 [fɔːˈʃædəʊ]

美 [fɔːrˈʃædoʊ]

v.  预示; 是…的预兆

过去式：foreshadowed　过去分词：foreshadowed　第三人称单数：foreshadows　现在分词：foreshadowing　

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BNC.18942 / COCA.15685

牛津词典

verb

• 预示；是…的预兆
  to be a sign of sth that will happen in the future

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

verb

• indicate by signs
  1. These signs bode bad news
  Synonym:bodeportendauspicateprognosticateomenpresagebetokenaugurforetellprefigureforecastpredict

双语例句

• The questions it raises foreshadow much of the subject matter of this anthology.
  它掀起的问题是提前预示了很多这次选文的本质问题。
• Classic conditioning also acts to foreshadow events, which can also subconsciously make players become frightened, excited or in some other mood.
  经典条件作用能够预示事情的发生，还使玩家潜意识觉得恐惧，兴奋或有其它心情。
• To a certain degree, the controversies and mysteries of the gothic novel precisely echo with the uncertainty of this era and foreshadow the arrival of the Romantic period.
  在某种程度上，哥特小说的神秘和争议恰恰是这种不确定性的一种表现，并且预示了同样充满神秘感和争议的浪漫主义时代的到来。
• A breakup of the euro would foreshadow more than a decisive weakening in the ties binding Germany to Europe. It would rob France of its remaining political leadership.
  欧元崩盘不仅仅预示着德国与欧洲之间的联系将遭到决定性的削弱，而且还会让法国失去现有的政治领导地位。
• Firstly, it will generally describe the definition and development of USUS, types and characters of USUS and functions and effects of USUS in order to foreshadow fundamental theories.
  本文首先对高校社团的内涵及发展、类型与特点、功能与作用三个方面进行了阐述，为论文作了基本理论上的铺垫。
• For instance, they foreshadow good or bad fortunes in the face of Jane Eyre and reveal Jane's heart filled with fire to the readers;
  它们预示简将面对的或好或坏的运气，向读者揭示了简充满激情的内心。
• 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。
• The two authors both based on their wandering life to foreshadow rich experience for their creation so as to form the tragic consciousness of life;
  两位作家都以流浪生活的体验为基础，为创作铺垫了丰富的生活底蕴，形成了生命的悲剧意识；
• Finally, the assets reorganization theory, the isolation of risk theory and the credit theory of asset securitization are studied, it produces and develops the foreshadow research for the follow-up chapter.
  最后是对资产证券化资产重组原理、资产证券化风险隔离理论、资产证券化信用理论进行研究，为后续章节的研究作铺垫。
• No ancient polity ever embodied constitutional democracy, and one dares to hope that ancient tragedy did not even foreshadow it.
  古代政治制度在实践上并没有立宪国民代议制，而且可以料想，他们也不曾在悲剧方面“预料”到这种制度。