foreshadow
英 [f??'??d??]
美 [f?r'??do]
- vt. 預(yù)示；成為…的前兆
- n. 預(yù)兆
英文詞源
- foreshadow (v.)
- "indicate beforehand," 1570s, figurative, from fore- + shadow (v.); the notion seems to be a shadow thrown before an advancing material object as an image of something suggestive of what is to come. Related: Foreshadowed; foreshadowing. As a noun from 1831. Old English had forescywa "shadow," forescywung "overshadowing."
雙語例句
- 1. The disappointing sales figures foreshadow more redundancies.
- 令人失望的銷售額預(yù)示著會有更多人被裁員。
來自辭典例句
- 2. Their words foreshadow events to come.
- 他們的話預(yù)示了所將要發(fā)生的事情.
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- 3. The current surge of Internet - enabled cell phones and personal digital assistants ( PDAs ) foreshadow what's to come.
- 上網(wǎng)手和個人數(shù)字助理 ( PDA ) 蓬勃興起的現(xiàn)狀預(yù)示示未來的趨勢.
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- 4. The descriptions of the clerks foreshadow the main characters, of the Dreams in the Red Mansion.
- 薛蟠致人死亡案中,胥吏的形象更是被作者揭露得淋漓盡致.
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- 5. The book then uses this information to foreshadow the direction that future anti - neoplastic therapies will take.
- 書然后使用這訊息預(yù)兆將來的 反 新生物的治療將帶的指示.
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