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词汇 foretaste
释义 foretaste
noun[ S ]
uk /ˈfɔː.teɪst/ us /ˈfɔːr.teɪst/
something that gives you an idea of what something else is like by allowing you to experience a small example of it before it happens: 预先的体验;预示;征象
a foretaste of spring春天的气息
The recent factory closures and job losses are just a foretaste of the recession that is to come.最近的工厂倒闭和失业只是即将到来的经济衰退的预示。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Planning, expecting and arranging
accidentally
accidentally on purposeidiom
advertent
advisedly
aim at something
bargain
conscious
have something in mindidiom
have something up your sleeveidiom
horizon scanning
how are you fixed for something?idiom
I'll/we'll cross that bridge when I/we come/get to itidiom
pencil
provident
providently
provision
purpose
purposefully
purposely
settle

foretaste | American Dictionary


foretaste
noun[ C ]
us/ˈfɔrˌteɪst, ˈfoʊr-/
an experience that lets you know in advance what something will be like:
Her job as an intern during the summer gave her a foretaste of the world of work.

Examples of foretaste


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All, in other words, become retrospectively revolutionary, foretastes of events to come.
The style of this first chapter provides an accurate foretaste of what is to come.
Williams et al. (1997) suggest that individual examples of nurse-led initiatives and increased autonomy are not a foretaste of what is to come.
However, this is only a foretaste since our analysis provides extensive quantitative results, notably the dispersion relation and the spatial structure of the zigzag eigenmode, which deserves a complete test.
Valenzuela's work suggests that the relative difficulty the executive experienced in asserting authority over military subordinates in 1965 was a foretaste of more profound civil-military conflicts in years to come.
It may be a foretaste of what is to come when he tries to introduce legislation to end resale price maintenance.
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It could well be a foretaste of things to come.
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I thought myself that it was a little "old hat", but it was a foretaste of the boldness manifested in his speech today.
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Indeed, she is a foretaste of what we shall be getting in these other ships.
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They have not yet realised this is merely a foretaste of what is to come.
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Last night's debate was a foretaste of what is to come.
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That was a foretaste of things to come.
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It is also a foretaste of what will happen to the other authorities in two or three years' time.
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We have had a foretaste of these things during the last year or two.
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We have had examples of that in the past and, frighteningly, we have had a foretaste of what might happen in the future.
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