foreshadow
英 [fɔː'ʃædəʊ]
美 [fɔr'ʃædo]
英文词源
- 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."
双语例句
- 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。
来自辞典例句
- 2. Their words foreshadow events to come.
- 他们的话预示了所将要发生的事情.
来自互联网
- 3. The current surge of Internet - enabled cell phones and personal digital assistants ( PDAs ) foreshadow what's to come.
- 上网手和个人数字助理 ( PDA ) 蓬勃兴起的现状预示示未来的趋势.
来自互联网
- 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尽致.
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- 5. The book then uses this information to foreshadow the direction that future anti - neoplastic therapies will take.
- 书然后使用这讯息预兆将来的 反 新生物的治疗将带的指示.
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