foreshadowing

1. VERB 预示;是…的预兆
   If something foreshadows an 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。

1. This episode carries a foreshadowing of what is to follow later on in the story.
   这件事为以后情节的发展埋下了伏笔。
2. 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。
3. 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。
4. Threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments.
   预示着不幸或者悲惨的发展。
5. 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。
6. 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。
7. Food seemed no longer to nourish him, for each morning his face had caught more of the ghastly foreshadowing of death.
   食物似乎对他失去了营养作用，因为每天早晨，他脸上那种接近死亡的灰暗色总要加深一层。
8. This is my usual trick of foreshadowing.
   这是我惯用伎俩的伏笔。
9. Because he is in front of a foreshadowing of that to buy Chinese stocks take some of the special procedures.
   因为他的前面是一个铺垫的，要购买中国股票的考虑一些特别程序。
10. Foreshadowing evil or disaster; ominous.
    不祥的预示罪恶或灾难的；不祥预兆的。
11. Chinese companies are increasingly aiming for contracts in the US and other mature economies, potentially foreshadowing a reshaping of the global rail industry.
    中国企业越来越多地瞄准美国和其他成熟经济体中的合同，有改变全球铁路行业面貌的势头。
12. Luke is foreshadowing the book of Acts in this chapter with Jesus'sermon because Jesus himself doesn't go preach to Gentiles.
    路加福音中耶稣布道这章，是使徒行传的预示，因为耶稣本人不与外邦人传道。
13. 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
14. Well Jesus! So Melchizedek is simply a foreshadowing, he's a sign of Jesus.
    耶稣，所以麦基洗德只是一个伏笔，他是耶稣的迹象。
15. 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。
16. 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。
17. 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。
18. On the other hand, the girls themselves, while expecting a wife and mother future, are already foreshadowing some of the changes in values that would characterise the60s.
    另一方面，女孩们在等待担任妻子与母亲时，早已预示六十年代某些价值观将会改变。
19. Because the Soviet leaders refused reform, crises and contradictions piled up, foreshadowing the final collapse of the Soviet Union.
    由于苏联领导人拒绝改革，使得危机和矛盾不断聚集，给苏联的最终解体打下了伏笔。
20. 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。
21. The decline of Chinese Oceanic Culture draws the foreshadowing of Chinese history.
    中国海洋文化的衰弱，为近代中国历史定势埋下伏笔。
22. 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。
23. The second chapter introduced Giddens 'Theory of Structuration from the basic concept and key questions of Theory of Structuration, made the most basic theory foreshadowing for understanding Giddens' trilogy.
    第二章从结构化理论的基本概念、所关注的核心问题等方面，对吉登斯的结构化理论进行了介绍，为理解吉登斯的三部曲做了最基本的理论铺垫。
24. 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。
25. 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。
26. Chapter 2 is a historical foreshadowing of the developing research for education aim.
    第二章主要为教育宗旨的展开研究进行应有的铺垫。
27. 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。
28. It can also play a foreshadowing role in the research of event game theory.
    也可以为事件对策论的研究起到一个铺垫作用。
29. 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。
30. This part is the foreshadowing, for below link suicide phenomenon and frustration education.
    这个部分的内容是为下文将自杀现象和挫折教育联系起来作铺垫。

noun

1. the act of providing vague advance indications

   Synonym:    prefigurationadumbration

adj

1. indistinctly prophetic

   Synonym:    adumbrativeprefigurative