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If you describe an event as aforetasteof a future situation, you mean that it suggests to you what that future situation will be like. 预示
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All hereallysays about it - apart fromimagesandmetaphors - is that onecanhave foretastesof theexperiencein this lifetime, andthat it's the ultimatehappiness, something trulyworthknowing.