foretaste

noun

1. 预先的体验；预示；征象
   a small amount of a particular experience or situation that shows you what it will be like when the same thing happens on a larger scale in the future
   1. They were unaware that the street violence was just a foretaste of what was to come.
      他们没有意识到，这起街头暴力预示着未来大规模的暴力行为。

1. N-COUNT 预示;预先的体验;征兆
   If you describe an event as a foretaste of a future situation, you mean that it suggests to you what that future situation will be like.
   1. It was a foretaste of things to come...
      事情初露端倪。
   2. This is but a foretaste of what the emerging technologies will enable us to do.
      新科技将会给我们带来什么，这仅仅是一次初体验。

1. It was a foretaste of things to come
   事情初露端倪。
2. This is but a foretaste of what the emerging technologies will enable us to do.
   新科技将会给我们带来什么，这仅仅是一次初体验。
3. Summer styles are often a foretaste of autumn fashion.
   夏装的款式常常是秋装的预兆。
4. To be left alone without God, would be too awful for words, but to be left alone with Him is a foretaste of Heaven!
   总之，剩下一人而没有神同在，是太凄凉的事；剩下一人而有主同在的话，是预尝天上的光景！
5. The poet read out a poem as a foretaste of her new collection, to be published soon.
   那位诗人朗诵了一首诗，让大家预先体味体味她不久要出版一本新诗集。
6. Mr King gave a foretaste of what he will write when he presented the bank's latest economic forecasts on February10th.
   King先生在2月10号发表最新的经济预测的同时也对自己的公开信内容作了预告。
7. On Omission Caused by Pre-action in Tort Law Antecedence and Foretaste, large possibilities in Agriculture cooperation between Fujian and Taiwan
   先行行为导致的不作为侵权行为研究先行先试促进闽台农业合作大有可为
8. But it was frightening: or, more exactly, it was like a foretaste of death, like being a little less alive.
   或者确切地说，这有点象预先尝一下死亡的滋昧，有点象少活几天。
9. The clogging of our e-mail inboxes and the distractions of in-house social networks offer a foretaste.
   塞满邮件的电邮收件箱和令人分心的公司内部社交网络都提供了一种预示。
10. The note to be sounded was brevity, mystery, and a foretaste of impending doom for Germany. There are telltale symptoms by which history gives warning to a threatened or perishing society.
    措辞应当简短、神秘，而且要预示德国即将灭亡。历史往往借助于一些很能说明问题的迹象来警示一个正面临威胁或即将灭亡的社会。
11. The Transfiguration is Jesus'way of giving to his innermost circle of disciples a foretaste of heaven.
    耶稣用登山变相的方式显现给祂最深爱的门徒，让他们得到天国的预先体验。
12. The episode was a foretaste of the bitter struggle that was to come.
    这一插曲是即将到来的尖锐斗争的前奏。
13. Blessed assurance, Jesus is mine, O what a foretaste of glory divine!
    有福的确据耶稣属我，何等的荣耀向我显明；
14. In this life we are given a foretaste.
    在这种生活中，我们将有一个预先的体验。
15. Her caustic remark gave him a foretaste of her anger.
    她的刻薄话使他预感到她的愤怒。
16. A foretaste of the fierce conflict to come.
    对未来的激烈冲突先尝到的滋味。
17. The recent factory closures and job losses are just a foretaste of the recession that is to come.
    最近的工厂关闭和失业现象正是将要来临的经济衰退的预兆。
18. The briny air gave a foretaste of the nearby sea.
    咸空气是快近海的前兆。
19. Blessed assurance, Jesus is mine! O what a foretaste of glory divine!
    有福的确据，耶稣属我，我今得先尝主荣耀喜乐！
20. The unusually warm spring day seemed like a foretaste of summer.
    不寻常的温暖春日似乎像是夏天的先兆。
21. As a foretaste of your trip, let me show you a few photographs of the area.
    我给你看几张那个地区的照片，让你先体验一下你的旅行。
22. The air held a foretaste of rain.
    空气中有将要下雨的征兆。
23. Sam got a foretaste of business life by working during his vacation.
    山姆藉著在假期中工作先行体验了商业生涯。
24. An introductory or preliminary message, sample, or overview; a foretaste.
    预告介绍性或初步的信息，标本或概述；象征，预示。
25. Perhaps she was having a foretaste of her unhappy future because of unwholesome kamma.
    可能她正在预尝一点由恶业决定的不幸的来生的苦味。
26. He relationship between applied stress and volume fraction and foretaste of material properties are developed through the deformation of fibre network and distribution of inner resin pressure with the help of analysis of the constant flow in the resin.
    通过纤维网络的变形及其内部树脂的连续流动来分析内部树脂压力的分布，从而建立施加载荷与纤维体积分数间关系及预测材料性能。
27. When the Bayes method is utilized to asses the small scale product reliability, the foretaste distribution of the success-failure is regarded as β( 0,0), this is not scientific.
    在采用Bayes方法对小样本产品可靠性进行评定时，常常是将成败型分系统试验的验前分布取为β（0，0）。
28. As a communication foretaste region with Taiwan, the Western Coast of the Taiwan Straits has an important strategic position in in China regional economy development pattern.
    海峡西岸经济区作为对台交流先行先试地区，在全国区域经济发展布局中具有重要的战略地位。

noun

1. an early limited awareness of something yet to occur