foreground

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1 the foreground FRONTthe part of the view in a picture or a photograph that is closest to you when you are looking at it 〔图片或照片的〕前景 OPP background

There were three figures in the foreground.

前景有三个人。

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the foreground• A young girl in the foreground plays in the water of the fountain.

2 be in the foreground IMPORTANTto be regarded as important and receive a lot of attention 处于最突出的地位；成为众所瞩目者

Education has been very much in the foreground recently.

最近教育问题备受关注。

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be in the foreground• Spike happens to be in the foreground of this shot.• The fly wheel, drive worm and wheel are in the foreground.

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foreground• Many of his compositions play with the merging of foreground, middle-distance and background details into one overlapping pattern.• The wife of Agamemnon, Clytemnestra, has all the foreground to herself.• An infant illuminates the foreground so brightly that the background fades.• There were three figures in the foreground, with a boy on the left and a girl on the right.• Suggest some reasons why the land in the background in the photograph is less valuable to farmers than that in the foreground.• In the foreground of the picture is a man with a black beard, dressed in rough workingman's clothes and a hat.• The foreground is also strengthened with the same sweeping strokes.• Play with foreground / background effects from other records.

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