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

• 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。
• 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。
• Foreshadowing evil or disaster; ominous.
  不祥的预示罪恶或灾难的；不祥预兆的。
• 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。
• 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。
• This is my usual trick of foreshadowing.
  这是我惯用伎俩的伏笔。
• 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。
• Part Three: the relationships between suspense and foreshadowing and between sudden conversion and good organization.
  第三部分：悬念与伏笔、突转和照应之间的关系。
• 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。