| 词汇 | ominously |
| 释义 | ominously adverb uk /ˈɒm.ɪ.nəs.li/ us /ˈɑː.mə.nəs.li/ in a way that suggests that something unpleasant is likely to happen: 恶兆地，不祥地，不吉利地 I went into the kitchen and found him lying ominously still on the floor.我走进厨房，发现他不祥地躺在地板上一动不动。 "I'm waiting," Evelyn said ominously.“我在等着，”伊芙琳不祥地说。 See ominous Locals are finding fewer fish to eat and, more ominously, the tide rises a bit higher each year. They talked ominously about the possibility of redundancy. No issue hangs over the Games more ominously than drugs. 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 Examples of ominouslyominously Beyond this lie some 5000 acres of agricultural land interspersed with hospitals, convalescent homes, and something rather ominously described as a farm for epileptics. Her portrayal of individual lone stars, in the heavenly constellations, is punctuated by silences, most ominously. Furthermore, he argued ominously, 'their laws are considerably less liberal than our own in having a tribunal procedure, which can and does discourage unnecessary terminations'. Even more ominously, when she awakes from surgery a lawyer - ' what they call an ' 'ambulance chaser ' ' ' - is there to offer his services (p. 7). At the same time, he notes ominously, the amount of real power that municipal elites of any sort could exercise was rapidly declining. The question of who paid for transport improvements was ominously unresolved. In any case, the colloquial phrase is "duty to obey the law" and not "duty to obey our law," which to this writer's ear has an ominously cabalistic ring. More ominously, they raised the specter of the intercommunal disorder that would be brought about by struggles for leadership and the control of finances within the new municipality. The production lines for the airframes, engines and avionics would begin to taper ominously away, and unit costs would go up. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Indeed, he rather ominously went on to claim that densities in the south-east were the lowest in the country. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Over the years we have seen quite a bit of skating over thin ice, and occasionally the ice has cracked ominously. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 All the figures show that ominously the incidence of homelessness is still increasing. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The coalowners refuse to meet the need for changes in the industry, however ominously necessary these may appear. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Today, we are confronted by an extra-national, religiously self-defined entity with something ominously like a nation's power to wage war. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 However, even with the £128 billion revenue from oil, ominously we still have a deficit of £20 billion over the decade as a whole. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 See all examples of ominously 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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