Foretaste

(noun.) an early limited awareness of something yet to occur.

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• He is a foretaste of a more advanced statesmanship. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• This breeze, which has travelled from the regions towards which I am advancing, gives me a foretaste of those icy climes. 玛丽·雪莱. 弗兰肯斯坦.
• It was this marquee that Mr. Bambridge was bent on buying, and he appeared to like looking inside it frequently, as a foretaste of its possession. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• He had not had much foretaste of happiness in his previous life. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• Such instances seem to show that the good sometimes enjoy, in dying, a foretaste of the happy state they are about to enter. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.

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