foreshowing

v.预示
常用释义
v.预示,预兆:预先显示或暗示将要发生的事情。

例句

1·For the Great Music had been but the growth and flowering of thought in the Tuneless Halls, and the Vision only a foreshowing;

原来宏乐虽成,但在大家未能和谐一致的大厅里,精神的生长繁荣和那幻象都仅仅是一个预兆。