| 释义 | the shape of things to comeidiom
 the form or style that is likely to develop or be popular in the future: 可能出现(或流行)的形式(或风格)
 I hope the fashions pictured in this magazine are not the shape of things to come.我希望这本杂志上刊登的时装不是将来的流行款式。
 SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
 Predicting things and intuition
 augur
 augury
 bellwether
 betcha
 bode
 herald
 horizon scanning
 hunch
 inkling
 instinct
 prefigure
 premonition
 premonitory
 presage
 prescience
 telepathy
 there's no knowing/telling/sayingidiom
 unforeseeable
 unintuitively
 unreasoning
 
 
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