- 1預示；伏筆（談小說電影時，台灣師生多說「伏筆」）
To foreshadow is to show or hint, early on, that something will happen later. Stories do this a lot: a dark cloud, a broken glass, a throwaway line — and later you see why it was there. Teachers love this word for books and films. In real life you can say a small event foreshadowed a bigger one, but that sounds a bit like a writer talking. Though actually, the “shadow” is not a real shadow on the ground; it is a faint shape of the future, like a shadow arriving before the person. The noun foreshadowing is even more common in class than the verb. It is close to foresee, but foresee is in someone’s head; foreshadow is in the story or the sign itself.
組成The verb is fore- (“before in time”) + shadow (“to shade or darken”). The noun is fore- + shadow (“a faint, imperfect shape”), probably modelled on the earlier verb.
同家族的字
- shadowthe second half: a faint shape of what is coming
原始詞典資料3 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，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。
foreshadowverb/fɔːˈʃædəʊ/
- 1
To suggest (someone or something) in advance; to prefigure, to presage.
- [T]he ceremonies commaunded in the lawe, did foreſhadowe Chriſt.
- [T]hat the excellency and efficacy of this [Jesus's] death and passion might appear, it was by manifold types foreshadowed, and in divers prophecies foretold.
- 2
rareOf a person: to have an intuition or premonition about (something); to forebode.
- Another consequence that he had never foreshadowed, was the implication of an innocent man in his supposed murder.
foreshadownoun/ˈfɔːˌʃædəʊ/
- 1
A suggestion of something in advance; a harbinger, a portent.
- At present it is only in local glimpses, and by significant fragments, picked often at wide-enough intervals from the original Volume, and carefully collated, that we can hope to impart some outline or foreshadow of this Doctrine.
- Fore-shadows, call them rather fore-splendours, of that Truth, and Beginning of Truths, fell mysteriously over my soul.
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