英语释义

• an early limited awareness of something yet to occur

片语

prefiguration预示；预想；征兆

portent前兆；预示；迹象；异常之物

英汉例句

• i got a foretaste of appreciation while still on the return journey.

  在回家的路上，我已预先尝到了受人尊敬的滋味。

• weekly worship is a foretaste of our eternal worship.

  每周的敬拜是永恒敬拜的预尝。

• what is happening in india, which has too many people in places where there is not enough water, is a foretaste of what is to come.

  而印度许多人在水资源不足的地方生活，这可以预测未来的情况。

• the transfiguration is jesus' way of giving to his innermost circle of disciples a foretaste of heaven.

  耶稣用登山变相的方式显现给祂最深爱的门徒，让他们得到天国的预先体验。

• will remain major crime but a foretaste of the seriousness of incivility is suggested by what has been happening in houston.

  社会首先关注的当然还是重大罪行，但是下述休斯敦市的情况预示：如果不讲文明，将会产生何种严重的后果。

• oh, what a foretaste of glory divine!

  我今得先尝主荣耀喜乐！

• perhaps she was having a foretaste of her unhappy future because of unwholesome kamma.

  可能她正在预尝一点由恶业决定的不幸的来生的苦味。

• how trading via 「dark pools of liquidity」 may give a foretaste of an internet where secrecy is valued more than transparency

  通过「资金暗池」的交易预先告诉我们，网络是一个保密比透明更加重要的交易场所。

• that is a foretaste of how the krupp foundation could possibly block the plans of thyssenkrupp managers, and a majority of its shareholders, in future.

  那是一个克虏伯基金会阻碍蒂森克虏伯经理和他们大多数股东计划的象征。

• the argument is just a foretaste of fights to come.

  目前的争论还只是未来的序曲。

• society first concern will remain major crime but a foretaste of the seriousness of incivility is suggested by what has been happening in houston.

  社会首先关注的当然还是重大的罪行，但是下述休斯顿市的情况预示：如果不讲文明，将会产生何种严重的后果。

• yet the mayor has disappointed those who looked to him for an uplifting foretaste of the national conservative government that is likely to be elected by june 2010.

  不过还有些人伸长了脖子，等着看2010年6月保守派国家政府的预演何等令人振奋——新市长还是让他们失望了。

• last year, in a sort of foretaste of the present conflict, amazon temporarily removed the 「buy」 buttons for the publisher macmillan as part of a struggle over e-book pricing.

  去年，亚马逊与麦克米伦出版商（macmillan）就电子书价格发生沖突，并暂时性移除了该公司图书在网站上的「购买」按钮，算是某种对当下沖突的一次预演。

• to be left alone without god, would be too awful for words, but to be left alone with him is a foretaste of heaven!

  总之，剩下一人而没有神同在，是太凄凉的事；剩下一人而有主同在的话，是预尝天上的光景！

• a thousand days of sin are the path to hell. a day with christ is a foretaste of heaven.

  在罪中千日是通往地狱的路，与基督一日是先尝天国的甘甜。

• power was restored within a few hours, but the blackout was a worrying foretaste of what may be to come.

  虽然供电在几小时之内就恢复了，但该次停电使人们担心可能会发生的事情。

• this buddhic realm is variously construed as a foretaste of nirvana, or as essentially nirvana itself.

  这一佛法世界被以不同的方式解释为涅槃前的法味，或者本质上就是涅槃。

• they were unaware that the street violence was just a foretaste of what was to come.

  他们没有意识到，这起街头暴力预示着未来大规模的暴力行为。

• apple’s iphone and its app store, which allows iphone and ipod owners to download applications, also provide a foretaste of how important wireless devices will be for the cloud.

  苹果的iphone和它的应用商店让iphone和ipod的拥有者们可以下载应用，这揭示了无线设备对于云的重要性。

• summer styles are often a foretaste of autumn fashion.

  夏装的款式常常是秋装的预兆。

• the haggling in geneva this week gives a foretaste of the discussions that will follow.

  本周在日内瓦发生的争论预示了随后的讨论会是什么样子的。

• the transfiguration is a real foretaste of heavenly realities.

  登山变相是一个真正天国的预先体验。

• yet this was only a foretaste of the intense experiences to come.

  这仅仅是强烈体验来到的预示。

• the longing she had answered in him, he hoped, was but a foretaste of a time when all his longings would be fulfilled.

  他希望，乔伊抚平他心里的渴望，只是预先略尝所有渴望得到满足的那一天。