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
Receipt of personal pensions and their forerunners, retirement annuities, remain relatively small as yet.
These changes made the new version seem tepid in comparison to its forerunners.
The independents, he argues, should not be viewed as forerunners of modernity and rational bureaucracy.
Seldom can a crazy idea have become the forerunner of so much sense.
He had rather created forerunners worthy of him by putting in order a mass of heterogeneous and superficial writings.
There was a recognition that parliament had greatly improved compared to its forerunners, including the tone in which women were addressed and respected.
The action of the reflected wave and its "forerunners" within the visualization area did not affect the instability development.
Colonies resemble the staple-producing regions of today, while the powers that founded them were forerunners of today's big consumer countries.
