foreshadow
foreshadow 英 [fɔ:ˈʃædəʊ] 美 [fɔrˈʃædoʊ]
vt. 预示；成为…的前兆 n. 预兆
进行时:foreshadowing 过去式:foreshadowed 过去分词:foreshadowed 第三人称单数:foreshadows 名词复数:foreshadows
- 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.
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- vt. 预示；成为…的前兆
- n. 预兆
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1. Those dark clouds foreshadow a storm.
那些乌云预示着有一场暴风雨。
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2. European stocks declined from a four-month high amid concern that a share sale by Deutsche Bank AG may foreshadow more capital raising by the region’s lenders.
欧洲股市从四个月来高点下跌，德意志银行发售股票可能预示着欧洲各家银行需要筹集更多资本，引发市场担忧情绪。
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3. Ms. Whitney says the gloomy short-term predictions foreshadow a series of lean years in the broader financial services industry.
惠特尼说短期悲观预测是这个广袤的金融服务产业领域即将迎来一系列不景气年数的预兆。
- 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."
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