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

• 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。
• Her early days certainly didn't foreshadow a speed skater who would donate$ 10,000 out of her own bank account to the humanitarian group Right To Play after winning gold at the2006 Turin Olympics.
  在赢得2006年都灵奥运会金牌之后，她从自己的银行账户中拿出10000加元捐助给了人道主义组织“体育权力组织”。她早年的生活显然没有预示出成为一名速度滑冰运动员的先兆。
• But what we'll do, just to foreshadow a little bit, what I'll do at the beginning of the next lecture is what's at the end of your notes here.
  给大家一个提示，我们下节课开始要讲的将是，你们讲义上这部分的最后。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• In order to foreshadow the type of presentation required for computer use, data will be prepared in tabular form.
  为了显示一下使用计算机所需的表示方式，其中数据用表格形式列出。
• The answers in the first area foreshadow most of the rest.
  而第一个问题的答案恰巧预示了其余几个方面。
• 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。