foretaste

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be a foretaste of something SHOW/BE A SIGN OFto be a sign of something more important, more impressive etc that will happen in the future 是某事的前兆

Two wins at the start of the season were a foretaste of things to come.

赛季伊始便两战告捷，预示着好戏还在后头。

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be a foretaste of something• For visitors from an urban background, here is a foretaste of paradise ...• It was a foretaste of the wages-prices spiral and the increasingly futile chase after higher incomes.• Indeed, she is a foretaste of what we shall be getting in these other ships.• The violence on the streets was only a foretaste of what was to come.• This is a foretaste of what things will be like - if the polls are correct - over the next five years.

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foretaste• Back in London I had a foretaste of the conflicts that were to come.• Indeed, she is a foretaste of what we shall be getting in these other ships.• The mainland campaign had been just a foretaste of what might be coming, he said.• The latest outbreak of violence in London, he claimed, was only a foretaste of what might happen.• The riots were in a sense a foretaste of the Gordon Riots of the summer of 1780.• It was a foretaste of the wages-prices spiral and the increasingly futile chase after higher incomes.• The arm which was trapped beneath Celia gradually went numb, like a partial foretaste of death.

fore·taste noun

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BNC: 20088 COCA: 31189

foretaste

Signs of how things are or what may happen in the future: sign, signal, indication...

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