0 something or someone that acts as an early and less advanced model for what will appear in the future, or a warning or sign of what is to follow -- 先驱，先行者；预兆，前兆
The poem could, however, be read from the point of view of hunting/game-keeping as forerunners to conservation and sustainable development.
The only similarity between the new edition and its forerunners is the list of contents.
It was the forerunner of the newly resurgent carpet or mat planning form.
Similarly, the concept of generation, the forerunner of the notion of cohorts, needs revision.
With its system of foster-care-like protection, this "colony" was a forerunner of modern community mental health interventions.
Walters (1994) even hints that, in evolutionary terms, pain might be the forerunner of all negative emotions.
Unlike their forerunners, they could not look to a profusion of heiresses nor to the rewards of office to propel their rise.
Colonies resemble the staple-producing regions of today, while the powers that founded them were forerunners of today's big consumer countries.
