be heralded as something• The party continued well into the early hours and was heralded as a great success by all.• The opening of the £133m Manchester Metrolink in Aprilwas heralded as the new age of the tram.
1.[countableC]SHBO someone who carried messages from a ruler in the past 〔古时的〕传令官
2herald of somethingSHOW/BE A SIGN OFa sign that something is soon going to happen 某事的预兆
a bowl of daffodils, the first bright heralds of spring
一盆水仙花,春天的第一个鲜明的预兆
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herald• And they, the despised and rejected of the earth, were both its beneficiaries and its heralds.• Henry despatched his royalherald, Rouge Croix, in return.• No one wants to be the bearer of bad tidings, or the herald of impending doom.• Gandhi the general, Tagore the herald.• As children, she and her sister Ruth had reckoned the first outing to pickprimroses as the true herald of spring.