foretaste
🇬🇧/ˈfɔːteɪst/ 🇺🇸/ˈfɔːrteɪst/ 23If 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. 预示
noun [具体名词]先试；预示；先尝；试吃
It was a foretaste of things to come.
这是未来之事的预演。
verb [vt. 及物动词]先试；预尝；快乐地期待
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。
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