| 词汇 | augur |
| 释义 | augur verb[ I+ adv/prep, T ] formaluk /ˈɔː.ɡər/ us /ˈɑː.ɡɚ/ to be a sign of especially good or bad things in the future: 预示，是…的预兆 The company's sales figures for the first six months augur well for the rest of the year.公司前6个月的销售额预示着下半年形势看好。 Do you think that this recent ministerial announcement augurs (= is a sign of) a shift in government policy?你是否认为最近内阁发布的公告预示着政府政策要发生变化？ Synonyms bodeformal foreshadowformal portendformal presageformal Predicting things and intuition augury bellwether betcha bode bode ill horizon scanning hunch inkling instinct intuit premonition premonitory presage prescience prescient telepathy there's no knowing/telling/sayingidiom unforeseeable unintuitively unreasoning Examples of auguraugur She however, notes rightly that the concentration of power in the hands of the chief executives does not augur well for democratic accountability. One can only speculate as to what this augurs for a future settlement to the country's conflict. It augurs well for the standing of the series as a whole. Such circumstances augur unfavourably for tackling parenthood at an early age. The small size of the microbioids <0.1 mm diameter (towards the lower limits of nanobacteria) augurs against a bacterial origin. Mechanistic spending restraints are less palatable when they augur painful sacrifices to organized or sympathetic constituencies in exchange for the uncertain hope of diffuse public gain. Again, this augurs well for the environmentalists. Large-scale quantitative studies collected across a broad population can contextualize the individual communities' usages, and augur the direction of change in the use of linguistic variables. A new norm of 'transparency through fidelity' to the work guided both conducting and performing, auguring hierarchical relations between composer and interpreters, and between conductor and players. Thus, it seems more than a coincidence that this parameter for two media of widely different viscosities is in both cases close to that of an idealised augur. It does not augur well judging how tender the light railway authorities will be with the huge volume that will be involved. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It does not augur well for more, and perhaps the more weighty, decisions which will be taken by our centralised and purposive planners. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It augurs well, indeed, for a first reading agreement. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English This does not augur well for other areas of discussion. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English Figures of that magnitude do not augur well for the future of the railways. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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