| 英语单词 | foreshadow |
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| 英美音标 | 英 [fɔː'ʃædəʊ] 美 [fɔːr'ʃædoʊ] |
| 中文释义 | v.预示;预兆 |
| 英语例句 | (1) Those dark clouds foreshadow a storm. (2) Their words foreshadow events to come. (3) The book then uses this information to foreshadow the direction that future anti-neoplastic therapies will take. |
| 中文例句 | (1) 那些乌云预示着有一场暴风雨。 (2) 他们的话预示了所将要发生的事情。 (3) 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。 |
| vocabulary简明 | To foreshadow is to predict something or to give a hint of what is to come. Your kid sister's ability to take apart a toaster and put it back together might foreshadow a successful career in electronics. |
| vocabulary扩展 | The verb foreshadow is often defined as "warning" or has a suggestion of something bad to come, though sometimes it's more neutral or shows examples of both good and bad predictions. Dark gray clouds foreshadow a thunderstorm, just as spring showers foreshadow May flowers. What is foreshadowed doesn't always happen, though. A story might not foreshadow a happily-ever-after ending, but then it takes an unexpected twist, and the villain turns out to be a hero. |
| 柯林斯解释 | 1 [VERB 动词]预示;是…的预兆 If something foreshadows an event or situation, it suggests that it will happen. [V n]
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