foreshadow
verb (formal)- foreshadow something
to be a sign of something that will happen in the future 预示;是…的预兆 His sudden death had been foreshadowed by earlier health scares. 早期的健康恐慌预示了他的突然死亡。 These measures were foreshadowed in last year’s Health Committee report. 这些措施在去年的卫生委员会报告中有所预示。