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 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。
• Luke is foreshadowing the book of Acts in this chapter with Jesus'sermon because Jesus himself doesn't go preach to Gentiles.
  路加福音中耶稣布道这章，是使徒行传的预示，因为耶稣本人不与外邦人传道。
• 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。
• 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。
• Chapter 2 is a historical foreshadowing of the developing research for education aim.
  第二章主要为教育宗旨的展开研究进行应有的铺垫。
• 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。
• On the Artistry of Foreshadowing in Hardy's A Pair of Blue Eyes
  哈代《一双蓝蓝的眼睛》中伏笔艺术探究
• This is my usual trick of foreshadowing.
  这是我惯用伎俩的伏笔。
• 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。
• 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。