foreshadow

英 [fɔːˈʃædəʊ]

美 [fɔːrˈʃædoʊ]

v.  预示; 是…的预兆

过去式：foreshadowed　过去分词：foreshadowed　第三人称单数：foreshadows　现在分词：foreshadowing　

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BNC.18942 / COCA.15685

牛津词典

verb

• 预示；是…的预兆
  to be a sign of sth that will happen in the future

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

verb

• indicate by signs
  1. These signs bode bad news
  Synonym:bodeportendauspicateprognosticateomenpresagebetokenaugurforetellprefigureforecastpredict

双语例句

• To a certain degree, the controversies and mysteries of the gothic novel precisely echo with the uncertainty of this era and foreshadow the arrival of the Romantic period.
  在某种程度上，哥特小说的神秘和争议恰恰是这种不确定性的一种表现，并且预示了同样充满神秘感和争议的浪漫主义时代的到来。
• Excessive financial innovation causes the financial market to disintermediate and securitize day by day, amplify the leverage effect of derivatives and foreshadow the exceptional fluctuations of the financial market and frequent financial crisis.
  过度的金融创新使金融市场日益脱媒化和证券化，放大了衍生产品的杠杆效应，为金融市场异常剧烈波动、金融危机频发埋下了伏笔。
• But what we'll do, just to foreshadow a little bit, what I'll do at the beginning of the next lecture is what's at the end of your notes here.
  给大家一个提示，我们下节课开始要讲的将是，你们讲义上这部分的最后。
• For instance, they foreshadow good or bad fortunes in the face of Jane Eyre and reveal Jane's heart filled with fire to the readers;
  它们预示简将面对的或好或坏的运气，向读者揭示了简充满激情的内心。
• 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。
• Finally, the assets reorganization theory, the isolation of risk theory and the credit theory of asset securitization are studied, it produces and develops the foreshadow research for the follow-up chapter.
  最后是对资产证券化资产重组原理、资产证券化风险隔离理论、资产证券化信用理论进行研究，为后续章节的研究作铺垫。
• In a field replete with activity, this latest twist in function may foreshadow even more faces of these intriguing micromolecules.
  在这个充满活力的领域，功能上的最近研究预示着这些引人注意的微分子可能有更多的研究前景。
• The questions it raises foreshadow much of the subject matter of this anthology.
  它掀起的问题是提前预示了很多这次选文的本质问题。
• Classic conditioning also acts to foreshadow events, which can also subconsciously make players become frightened, excited or in some other mood.
  经典条件作用能够预示事情的发生，还使玩家潜意识觉得恐惧，兴奋或有其它心情。
• The answers in the first area foreshadow most of the rest.
  而第一个问题的答案恰巧预示了其余几个方面。