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The part of a picture or a scene that is closest to you, in front of everything else — the opposite of the background, which is farther away. As a verb, 'to foreground' something means to make it the main focus of attention, especially in writing or discussion — 'the report foregrounds the safety issues.'
前景
組成fore- (in front) + ground
同家族的字
- backgroundthe opposite — the part of a scene that is farther away or less important
- groundthe base word
原始詞典資料4 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
foregroundnoun/ˈfɔː(ɹ)ˌɡɹaʊnd/
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The elements of an image which lie closest to the picture plane.
- Note the presence in the foreground of the fronds of ailanthus, often called “ghetto palm,” now ubiquitous in Baltimore but apparently already common in the 1930s.
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The subject of an image, often depicted at the bottom in a two-dimensional work.
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computingengineeringmathematicsThe application the user is currently interacting with; the application window that appears in front of all others.
foregroundverb/ˈfɔː(ɹ)ˌɡɹaʊnd/
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To place in the foreground (physically or metaphorically).
- Right from the start, The Irishman foregrounds the looming inevitability of death.
- Things that were implicit and largely unjudged in the book, filtered through layers of stiff-upper-lip irony — Fanny’s self-pity, Linda’s obliviousness — are now foregrounded and, for the most part, rendered banal, with “Beaches”-level platitudes and sentimentality.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。