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foreshadowing

/fawr-shad-oh-ing/US // ˌfɔrˈʃæd oʊ ɪŋ //

预示着,预示,预示性,预示着什么

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n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : an indication of something that will happen in the future, often used as a literary device to hint at or allude to future plot developments: The gothic novel uses foreshadowing to build suspense.

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Examples

  • Often, it’s a foreshadowing of when political change is coming.

  • Perhaps it was a bit of foreshadowing since, after Slovakia broke from the Czech Republic, all kinds of hell broke loose.

  • Almost as an act of foreshadowing, Philly tied eventual champion Toronto in that category.

  • In a bit of foreshadowing, he repeated that opinion in November.

  • “The spoon was a tool for foreshadowing,” the Facebook page explains.

  • In a foreshadowing of things to come, I learned that Africa is always changing.

  • The rise of the yeoman class in Britain was particularly critical in foreshadowing the evolution of America.

  • We often joke that Willa was less a name, and more foreshadowing.

  • In that book his grandfather and father are represented as foreshadowing the greatness of their descendant.

  • No less striking is His touching reference to the dark days coming, the first distinct foreshadowing of the Cross.

  • Men have sometimes a foreshadowing of what will come to pass without distinctly seeing it.

  • But there is a wondrously clear foreshadowing of that tremendous cross scene in the earliest page of this old Book.

  • There certainly was at present no foreshadowing of the coming separation, in his daughter's face.

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