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foretold

/fawr-tel, fohr-/US // fɔrˈtɛl, foʊr- //UK // (fɔːˈtɛl) //

预言中的,预见的,预示着,预言的

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Definitions

v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1

    fore·told, fore·tell·ing.

    • : to tell of beforehand; predict; prophesy.

Synonyms & Antonyms

adj.known beforehand

Examples

  • The winning lottery numbers and foretold riches never arrived.

  • He had, against the odds, successfully foretold their loss to the much weaker Serbia in the first round of play.

  • The 1976 movie darkly foretold the future of television news.

  • Virtually none of the disastrous results foretold by declinists and catastrophists materialized in 2013.

  • The Monuments Men touched upon all of the action in Europe save for Italy—a conspicuous absence that foretold a future volume.

  • Tell ye, and come, and consult together: who hath declared this from the beginning, who hath foretold this from that time?

  • The prophets often speak of things to come as if they were past, to express the certainty of the event of the things foretold.

  • In any case, so far as could be judged, the occurrence foretold was not imminent.

  • And when a restoration to the privileges of the sabbath is foretold, regard to them as a people in covenant is promised.

  • Both in the first and in the later ages, the performance of the duty in these ages was foretold.

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