| 词汇 | portent |
| 释义 | portent noun[ C ] uk /ˈpɔː.tent/ us /ˈpɔːr.tent/ a sign that something bad is likely to happen in the future: 凶兆，征兆，迹象 For the economy, the portents are extremely gloomy.对经济而言，预兆极为悲观。 Is it true that cows lying down in a field are a portent of rain?牛躺在田里是下雨的征兆吗？ See portend The evening started with portents of impending doom. To have an owl calling about your house was usually read as an ominous portent for those inside. Strange events and portents abounded. 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 portentportent The portents for future publication are good, since we continue to receive a steady flow of good manuscripts. The portents for the future, therefore, are continually improving. Nobody could have predicted the portent of that arrest, but since then the names involved have become household ones. If the understanding is still weaker, he hits upon the grotesque - meaningful dreams, presentiments, and miraculous portents. A staunch representative of the 'unreconstructed right wing', his death seemed a symbolic portent for the decision that was to follow. It is also clear in the documents that this rebellion raised concern but did not induce panic or suggest a portent of worse to come. This is the portent of a fine series of recordings. Serious as they have been, they are surely a small portent of what lies ahead. However, there are some good portents for the future. The ethereal violin line is broken for an instant by a portentous tolling, a portent that is to be developed throughout the work. These tendencies and their ramifications are a dangerous portent for the nation's nascent democracy and fragile unity. People wanted to know whether the earthquake was preceded by the usual portents, or whether such signs had now to give way to the tracings of seismographs. He was in office while such strides began to be made by the department in absorbing the full portent of our transport needs. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There are ominous portents in that decision, deliberately taken. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 This net has been a sign and a portent on the fishing horizon for the last two years. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 See all examples of portent 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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