adumbrate
未雨绸缪，粗略描绘框架，铺垫
例如，粗略地制定计划就可以说是adumbrate a plan.
铺垫了法国大革命的社会紧张情况: the social unrest that adumbrated the French Revolution.
e.g. In between, works by contemporaries complicate superficial ideas about his meteoric genius, and small, delicate drawings teem with an abundance of ideas — paintings never made, thoughts adumbrated then abandoned.
—Philip Kennicott, Washington Post, 18 Oct. 2019
未雨绸缪，粗略描绘框架，铺垫
例如，粗略地制定计划就可以说是adumbrate a plan.
铺垫了法国大革命的社会紧张情况: the social unrest that adumbrated the French Revolution.
e.g. In between, works by contemporaries complicate superficial ideas about his meteoric genius, and small, delicate drawings teem with an abundance of ideas — paintings never made, thoughts adumbrated then abandoned.
—Philip Kennicott, Washington Post, 18 Oct. 2019