| 词汇 | harbinger |
| 释义 | harbinger noun[ C ] literaryuk /ˈhɑː.bɪn.dʒər/ us /ˈhɑːr.bɪn.dʒɚ/ a person or thing that shows that something is going to happen soon, especially something bad: （尤指坏事的）先兆，预兆 a harbinger of doom毁灭的先兆 Synonym herald People who make predictions clairvoyant diviner doomsayer forecaster fortune teller futurist futurologist palmist prophet prophetess psychic seer sibyl soothsayer visionary Examples of harbingerharbinger Their arrival increased the pressure on game and was the harbinger of permanent settlement with permanent structures in the landscape. Personal insight and meaning are the harbingers of shared and public meaning. Performance-based music education becomes the harbinger of intellectual passivity and conservatism. While conjunctural, it was a harbinger of later events. There are signs, harbingers perhaps, of a coming trend of greater concern for the comparative among historians of science and technology. What then of textile production, the seeming harbinger of industrial development? This new, much higher limit, turned out to be a harbinger of the gradual removal of capital stock limitations. However, while 'enlightenment ' may have been the harbinger of change, to characterize this change as leading to ' secularization ' would be too simplistic. This sample may provide a harbinger of how contemporary children will be affected by the 1996 welfare reform law. Communists, on the other hand, regarded the misery and degradation of the unemployed as welcome harbingers of a new social order. We arrive at where we began : matter is the harbinger of evil (cf. 2 above). Moreover, discontinuity of consciousness undermines self-confidence at the deepest level; to an elderly person, a fit may seem a harbinger of death. A still more disruptive factor lies with the warming that is already overtaking the oceans-a probable harbinger of the greenhouse effect. The petite phrase, by turns mystery woman, confidante and national anthem - even, finally, a harbinger of doom - resists all such attempts at meaning-making. Can armies be agents of conflict resolution, harbingers of peace on earth? 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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