| 单词 | foreshadowing |
| 释义 | foreshadowing (once / 9891 pages) nadj Foreshadowing is an advance sign or warning of what is to come in the future. The author of a mystery novel might use foreshadowing in the early chapter of his book to give readers an inkling of an impending murder. When you want to let people know about an event that is yet to occur, you can use foreshadowing. Foreshadowing is used as a literary device to tease readers about plot turns that will occur later in the story. A fortune teller might use foreshadowing, warning that a short life line is a sign of some impending disaster. WORD FAMILYforeshadowing: foreshadowings+/foreshadow: foreshadowed, foreshadowing, foreshadows/overshadow: overshadowed, overshadowing, overshadows/shadow: foreshadow, overshadow, shadowed, shadower, shadowing, shadows, shadowy/shadowed: unshadowed/shadower: shadowers/shadowing: shadowings/shadowy: shadowily, shadowiness USAGE EXAMPLESMr. Bourdain said that while he fears Mr. Trump’s election is a foreshadowing of “authoritarianism,” conservatives do not own full culpability for the political landscape. Washington Times(Dec 29, 2016) Now I see it as a kind of foreshadowing of what happened next and the results of the election: it is a moment of terror. The Guardian(Dec 26, 2016) Some documents in the Nixon Library offer a foreshadowing of a Trumpian time, especially those related to Nixon’s obsession with controlling the way he’s portrayed. The New Yorker(Dec 16, 2016) 1n the act of providing vague advance indications; representing beforehand Syn|Hyper adumbration, prefiguration anticipation, prediction, prevision the act of predicting (as by reasoning about the future) 2adj indistinctly prophetic Syn adumbrative, prefigurative prophetic, prophetical foretelling events as if by supernatural intervention |
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