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预示;预先的体验;征兆
If 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.
例句
It was a foretaste of things to come...
事情初露端倪。
This is but a foretaste of what the emerging technologies will enable us to do.
新科技将会给我们带来什么，这仅仅是一次初体验。