词汇 | straw-in-the-wind |
释义 | straw in the windidiomUK something that suggests what might happen: (预示某事的)迹象,征兆,风向标 She described the theatre's closure as "a straw in the wind" as companies faced up to the realities of life after the lottery.她认为该剧院的关闭是一个信号,昭示着各家剧团终于放弃侥幸想法,开始面对现实了。 Predicting things and intuition augur augury bellwether betcha bode herald horizon scanning hunch inkling instinct prefigure premonition premonitory presage prescience telepathy there's no knowing/telling/sayingidiom unforeseeable unintuitively unreasoning |
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