foretaste

 Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++朗文当代英语 5++LDOCE 5++朗文 5++fore·taste /ˈfɔːteɪst $ ˈfɔːr-/ noun  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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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.

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foretaste
fore‧taste /ˈfɔːteɪst $ ˈfɔːr-/ noun
be a foretaste of something to be a sign of something more important, more impressive etc that will happen in the future:
    Two wins at the start of the season were a foretaste of things to come.

fore·tasteBrE /ˈfɔːteɪst/ 🔊NAmE /ˈfɔːrteɪst/ 🔊 noun [singular] a ~ (of sth) a small amount of a particular experience or situation that shows you what it will be like when the same thing happens on a larger scale in the future 预先的体验；预示；征象◆They were unaware that the street violence was just a foretaste of what was to come. 他们没有意识到，这起街头暴力事件预示了后来发生的大规模暴力行为。🔊🔊