词汇 | omen |
释义 | omen noun[ C ] uk /ˈəʊ.mən/ us /ˈoʊ.mən/ something that is considered to be a sign of how a future event will take place: 预兆,征兆,兆头 The team's final victory of the season is a good omen for the playoffs, which start next week.球队在本赛季最后一场比赛中获得胜利,这对下星期就开始的季后加赛来说是一个好兆头。 a bad omen坏兆头 Many people believe that a broken mirror is an omen of bad luck.许多人相信打碎镜子是噩运之兆。 Predicting things and intuition augur augury bellwether betcha bode herald horizon scanning hunch inkling instinct premonition premonitory presage prescience prescient telepathy there's no knowing/telling/sayingidiom unforeseeable unintuitively unreasoning omen | American Dictionaryomen noun[ C ] us/ˈoʊ·mən/ an event that is thought to tell something about the future: Scoring that goal was an omen of things to come. Examples of omenomen This volume is certainly proof and a good omen that scholarship and debate on this subject are active and will continue. The reason for this is again an omen or the predetermination of future births. This is, perhaps, the best omen for the future of the genre. Their coming he interprets as an omen signalling the end of the world. The soothsayers answered that it was an ill omen for it meant the destruction of the city and the death of many. The passages devoted to the political use of the supernatural (prophecies, omens) are fascinating. Some authors argue this is not necessarily a positive omen for democratisation. It seems he was right to suspect the incident as a bad omen. Failure of correct prediction was frequently viewed as a political omen. Other omens are less clear but still suggestive. Whether omen and ominous are linguistically related is a matter with a remarkably low priority in the speech technologies. This omen proved to be reliable. Ill omens, gloomy legends, and family curses condition her life, turning it into a destiny. Run to the sails, hurry up, as the wind is changing; turn to the north; see on the horizon the omens of the terrible typhoon! The omen for the compulosry contracting-out by local authorities is dark and dismal. 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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