0 to tell someone that something unpleasant is going to happen -- 预先警告，事先告诫
[ + (that) ] The employees had been forewarned (that) the end-of-year financial results would be poor. 雇员们已得到预先警告，年底的财政状况会很糟。
They might not want to take that risk again, but might be forewarned and stay away.
We have been forewarned in solemn tones about their size.
Potential defendants would be forewarned, long in advance of any trial, of the case likely to be made against them.
Impact of forewarning on adjustment to widowhood and divorce.
Local people should be forewarned that the local authority intended to produce any legislation which would require people to clear up after their dogs.
In that way, forewarned, we would to some extent be forearmed.
However, being forewarned does not necessarily prepare parents for how their lives will change.
European history forewarned us of the following sentence: state-controlled centralism destroys wealth and social welfare when its aim is not to support the economy, but to mould its character.
