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单词 foretaste
释义
foretastefore‧taste /ˈfɔːteɪst $ ˈfɔːr-/ noun Examples
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
  • Back in London I had a foretaste of the conflicts that were to come.
  • Indeed, she is a foretaste of what we shall be getting in these other ships.
  • It was a foretaste of the wages-prices spiral and the increasingly futile chase after higher incomes.
  • The arm which was trapped beneath Celia gradually went numb, like a partial foretaste of death.
  • The latest outbreak of violence in London, he claimed, was only a foretaste of what might happen.
  • The mainland campaign had been just a foretaste of what might be coming, he said.
  • The riots were in a sense a foretaste of the Gordon Riots of the summer of 1780.
Collocations
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY
 Two wins at the start of the season were a foretaste of things to come.
Phrases
PHRASES FROM THE ENTRY
  • The violence on the streets was only a foretaste of what was to come.
  • For visitors from an urban background, here is a foretaste of paradise ...
  • Indeed, she is a foretaste of what we shall be getting in these other ships.
  • It was a foretaste of the wages-prices spiral and the increasingly futile chase after higher incomes.
  • This is a foretaste of what things will be like - if the polls are correct - over the next five years.
be a foretaste of something to be a sign of something more important, more impressive etc that will happen in the future:  Two wins at the start of the season were a foretaste of things to come.
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