汉英词典
Chinese-English Dictionary
MEANING OF 伏笔
伏笔 (伏筆)
foreshadowing (literary device) / foretaste of material to come (in essay or story)
文章里前段为后段埋伏的线索。
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EXAMPLE SENTENCES

不要为陷入过去的生活埋下伏笔

Don't set yourself up for falling back into your old life.

一路上都是伏笔,回身的那刻全世界都失陷了。

Along the way are always is, around that moment of the fall of all over the world.

我将非常乐于用几个主题为该讨论埋下伏笔

I will be happy to seed the discussion with a few topics.

其中预言、梦境、灾异、卜筮等都是伏笔艺术的重要表现形式。

It's one of the important forms of foreshadowing for prediction, dreamland, natural calamities, augury, etc.

通过控制而非释放“情绪蒸汽”,我们为日后的情绪爆发埋下了伏笔

By holding in rather than venting "steam", we set the stage for future explosions.