Forerunner

(n.) A messenger sent before to give notice of the approach of others; a harbinger; a sign foreshowing something; a prognostic; as, the forerunner of a fever.

(n.) A predecessor; an ancestor.

(n.) A piece of rag terminating the log line.

科林整理

• This toy in turn was the forerunner of the Zoetrope, or so-called Wheel of Life, which was introduced into this country about the year 1845. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• I do not think the sunny youth of either will prove the forerunner of stormy age. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• The historian of political forms may see in the town meeting a forerunner of direct legislation. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• It was a vile pseudo sentiment--the offspring or the forerunner of evil. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• The Emperor Frederick II, with his epistles to his fellow princes, was its forerunner. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• The steam turbine is very much more efficient than its forerunner, the steam engine. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• They knew how to sweat, dry, and smoke the skins, and this crude seasoning process was the forerunner of modern tanning. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• That vision was the forerunner of the Addressograph. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• It will be the forerunner also of other interesting events: your sister's marriage, and your taking orders. 简·奥斯汀. 曼斯菲尔德庄园.
• It seemed like the forerunner of something absolutely serious, which she did not wish. 简·奥斯汀. 爱玛.
• So it also is in regard to the mimeograph, whose forerunner, the electric pen, was born of Edison's brain in 1877. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• In other words, he had found the forerunner of wireless telegraphy. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• These curious and interesting structures, which may be considered the forerunners of the gigantic iron Tubular Bridges of the present day, were burnt by the French in 1799. 弗雷德里克·科利尔·贝克维尔. 伟大的事实.
• We incline to account for it by attributing congenital stupidity to our forerunners and by assuming superior native intelligence on our own part. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• Earliest Implements and Processes Forerunners of Modern Inventions. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.

整理:蒂娜