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

• The ones that passed to the relevant concepts of International Maritime Organization and famous scholar's proposition defined comparative analysis afterwards, have put forward the definition the fraud in bill of lading by myself, has done essential theory foreshadowing for the discussion of the following problem.
  随后通过对国际海事组织相关概念和著名学者提出的定义比较分析，提出了自己对提单欺诈的定义，为下面问题的探讨作了必要的理论铺垫。
• 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。
• These days, however, the G20 looks more like it is foreshadowing the international conflicts of the 21st century.
  然而，眼下G20看上去更像是在预示着21世纪将是国际冲突的时代。
• 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。
• Combined with the study of this paper, we can give a foreshadowing role to the event game theory, and have certain reference value to the application research of the computer game theory and the event game theory.
  结合本文的研究可以为事件对策论的深入研究起到一个铺垫作用，对事件对策论和机器博弈的应用研究有一定的参考价值。
• 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
• Foreshadowing a criticism often levelled at him today, she said: Though he speaks sweet words there is also that coolness.
  她写道：尽管他会讲甜言蜜语，但依然可以感觉到他的冷漠。这段带有预兆性的评论也是奥巴马现在经常受到的批评之一。
• This is my usual trick of foreshadowing.
  这是我惯用伎俩的伏笔。
• 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。
• This part of the political psychology of college students have a negative reason was foreshadowing.
  这一部分为分析大学生产生消极政治心理的原因作了铺垫。