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

• Foreshadowing evil or disaster; ominous.
  不祥的预示罪恶或灾难的；不祥预兆的。
• His brother, of course, does just that, his behaviour foreshadowing our own unfortunate obsession with personal rights and cravings.
  当然他的兄弟就放弃了，就像我们也会遗憾地痴迷于个人的权利欲望。
• 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。
• 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。
• Open-minded is an accomplishment, but requires generosity as a foreshadowing.
  豁达是一种修养，却需要大度作为铺垫。
• This part of contents do foreshadowing for following chapter two and three.
  这一部分内容为其后的第二章和第三章做铺垫作用。
• 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。
• 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。
• This is my usual trick of foreshadowing.
  这是我惯用伎俩的伏笔。
• 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。