portent
英 [ˈpɔːtent]
美 [ˈpɔːrtent]
n. 预兆; 征兆; 先兆; (尤指)恶兆,凶兆
复数:portents
BNC.20706 / COCA.21369
牛津词典
noun
- 预兆;征兆;先兆;(尤指)恶兆,凶兆
a sign or warning of sth that is going to happen in the future, especially when it is sth unpleasant
柯林斯词典
- N-COUNT 预兆;征兆
Aportentis something that indicates what is likely to happen in the future.- The savage civil war there could be a portent of what's to come in the rest of the region...
那里发生的野蛮内战可能预示这一地区其他地方将会发生什么。 - I hope this is a portent for the rest of the year...
我希望这对今年余下的时间是个兆头。 - As for her engagement with Adam, I would say the portents are gloomy.
至于她和亚当的婚约,我看兆头不妙。
- The savage civil war there could be a portent of what's to come in the rest of the region...
英英释义
noun
- a sign of something about to happen
- he looked for an omen before going into battle
双语例句
- But did your reverence hear of the portent that was seen last night?
不过,阁下您听说昨天夜里人们看见的征兆了吗? - ET might be the important factor to cause vasoconstriction, resulting in the portent symptoms.
ET可能是导致血管收缩,引起先兆症状的重要因子。 - Based on the analyses for portent information of power sytem failures, This paper proposes a hierarchical causal diagnostic model.
本文分析了电网故障时所表现出的故障征兆信息的特点,在此基础上提出一种分层因果智能诊断模型,这种方法有更好的适应性。 - I see it as a portent of things to come.
我把它看作是将要到来的事物的前兆。 - The savage civil war there could be a portent of what's to come in the rest of the region
那里发生的野蛮内战可能预示这一地区其他地方将会发生什么。 - Even if a slowdown is happening, however, it is less a portent of a double dip than confirmation that the recovery will be a long slog.
不过,即使经济正在放缓,那也不是二次探底的征兆,而是经济复苏征途漫漫的印证。 - The portent wound in corridors of shells.
贝壳的回廊上那些带着异兆的伤。 - There came a Saturday morning ugly with the portent of storm.
有一个星期六早上,天昏地暗,暴风雨将临。 - That is what is so unsettling about today's China: Its authoritarian capitalism may not be merely a remainder of our past but a portent of our future.
这就是为什么大家对于今天中国会感到如此不安的地方:它的威权资本主义不单单是我们过去的某个剩余物,还可能是我们未来的预兆。 - Cows are treated as "Five Cereals God" for totemism, which has strong reproductivity. Thus, cows are looked upon as a token to bring humans a bumper grain harvest and propitious portent.
牛还作为图腾崇拜的五谷神,具有很强的繁殖能力,因此牛被看作能带来五谷丰登和瑞兆的财富的象征。