Foreground

(noun.) (computer science) a window for an active application.

(noun.) the part of a scene that is near the viewer.

(verb.) move into the foreground to make more visible or prominent; 'The introduction highlighted the speaker's distinguished career in linguistics'.

戴夫校对

• Throwing these into distance, rose, in the foreground, a head,--a colossal head, inclined towards the iceberg, and resting against it. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• In the foreground glowed the warm tints of the gardens. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• The second picture contained for foreground only the dim peak of a hill, with grass and some leaves slanting as if by a breeze. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• No one referred to it, and this tacit avoidance of the subject kept it in the immediate foreground of consciousness. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• His broad, grizzled head, with its shining patch of baldness, was in the immediate foreground of our vision. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• The American Falls may be seen in the foreground rushing past to make their plunge of 165 feet to the rocks below. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• During this interval she had become a less vivid and importunate image, receding from his foreground as May Welland resumed her rightful place in it. 伊迪丝·华顿. 纯真年代.

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