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foretaste

/noun fawr-teyst, fohr-; verb fawr-teyst, fohr-/US // noun ˈfɔrˌteɪst, ˈfoʊr-; verb fɔrˈteɪst, foʊr- //

预感,预知,预先了解,前瞻性

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a slight and partial experience, knowledge, or taste of something to come in the future; anticipation.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1

    fore·tast·ed, fore·tast·ing.

    • : to have some advance experience or knowledge of.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Examples

  • His fight against inequalities of rank is, as it were, a foretaste of the revolution.

  • By my faith, cousin, he hath given us to-day a foretaste of what he will be as a man!

  • If ever a human creature had a foretaste of heaven it was Honora during the few weeks that followed this happy day.

  • And I, poor foolish I, deemed all this to be a mere foretaste of the delights of living I should find higher above me in society.

  • It was a resume of the 'Quaker City' letters—a foretaste of the book which would presently follow.