foretaste是什么意思？

foretaste

英[ˈfɔ:teɪst] 美[ˈfɔrteɪst]

• n. 预示，先试，试吃；
• vt. 先试，快乐地期待，预尝；

复数：foretastes;

第三人称单数：foretastes;

过去式：foretasted;

过去分词：foretasted;

现在分词：foretasting;

例句

• Summer styles are often a foretaste of autumn fashion. 夏装的款式常常是秋装的预兆.
• It was a foretaste of things to come. 事情初露端倪。
• This is but a foretaste of what the emerging technologies will enable us to do. 新科技将会给我们带来什么，这仅仅是一次初体验。
• It was a foretaste of things to come... 事情初露端倪。

柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典释义

• N-COUNT
  预示;预先的体验;征兆
  If you describe an event as a foretaste of a future situation, you mean that it suggests to you what that future situation will be like.
  例句
  It was a foretaste of things to come... 事情初露端倪。 This is but a foretaste of what the emerging technologies will enable us to do. 新科技将会给我们带来什么，这仅仅是一次初体验。

英英词典释义

• Noun
  1. an early limited awareness of something yet to occur