forewarning 前兆
forewarning[ noun ]
an early warning about a future event
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Forewarn \Fore*warn"\ (f[=o]r*w[add]rn"), v. t. [imp. & p. p.
{Forewarned} (f[=o]r*w[add]rnd"); p. pr. & vb. n.
{Forewarning}.]
To warn beforehand; to give previous warning, admonition,
information, or notice to; to caution in advance.
We were forewarned of your coming. --Shak.
- He is adamant that he is not in financial difficulties, and had no forewarning of the bank's move. He has retained the support of Tiphook's own bankers and Mr Ian Clubb, its newly-appointed chairman.
- That and the forewarning of energy price increases add to the likelihood that the Dollars 1bn-plus sell-off of the power industry will go ahead soon.
- Despite all the forewarning, he says, "The industry and investors would be surprised.
- Did Hess give his interrogators details of Operation Barbarossa, the forthcoming German attack on the Soviet Union, of which Churchill already had forewarning through decrypts of the German Enigma ciphers?
- By contrast, Mr Konrad Porzner, the head of the German BND, already related in a German press interview during the summer how his agency gave the Bonn government forewarning of the August 1991 coup.