portent

英 [ˈpɔːtent]

美 [ˈpɔːrtent]

n.  预兆; 征兆; 先兆; (尤指)恶兆，凶兆

复数：portents　

BNC.20706 / COCA.21369

牛津词典

noun

• 预兆；征兆；先兆；（尤指）恶兆，凶兆
  a sign or warning of sth that is going to happen in the future, especially when it is sth unpleasant

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT 预兆；征兆
  Aportentis something that indicates what is likely to happen in the future.
  1. The savage civil war there could be a portent of what's to come in the rest of the region...
     那里发生的野蛮内战可能预示这一地区其他地方将会发生什么。
  2. I hope this is a portent for the rest of the year...
     我希望这对今年余下的时间是个兆头。
  3. As for her engagement with Adam, I would say the portents are gloomy.
     至于她和亚当的婚约，我看兆头不妙。

英英释义

noun

• a sign of something about to happen
  1. he looked for an omen before going into battle
  Synonym:omenpresageprognosticprognosticationprodigy

双语例句

• The downgrading of some of its banks this week was a portent of that.
  一些德国银行本周信用评级被下调就预示着这种情况的发生。
• The analysis of fracture failure for loom barrel arbor was explored with macroanalysis, microanalysis and metallographic inspection method. The result indicates that barrel ardor fracture is belong to fragile shear fracture without any obvious fracture portent, fracture may be caused by moment impact overloading.
  通过宏观和微观的断口形貌观察和金相分析，对织机卷筒轴断裂失效原因进行了分析，认为卷筒轴断裂属于无明显断裂前兆的脆性剪切断裂，断裂有可能由瞬时冲击过载引起。
• That is what is so unsettling about today's China: Its authoritarian capitalism may not be merely a remainder of our past but a portent of our future.
  这就是为什么大家对于今天中国会感到如此不安的地方：它的威权资本主义不单单是我们过去的某个剩余物，还可能是我们未来的预兆。
• From portent to eruption, financial crisis is a process from quantitative change to qualitative change.
  企业的财务危机从出现征兆到完全爆发是一个由量变积累到质变的过程。
• I have become like a portent to many, but you are my strong refuge.
  许多人都把我视作妖怪，你却作了我有力的仰赖。
• Cows are treated as "Five Cereals God" for totemism, which has strong reproductivity. Thus, cows are looked upon as a token to bring humans a bumper grain harvest and propitious portent.
  牛还作为图腾崇拜的五谷神，具有很强的繁殖能力，因此牛被看作能带来五谷丰登和瑞兆的财富的象征。
• I see it as a portent of things to come.
  我把它看作是将要到来的事物的前兆。
• But did your reverence hear of the portent that was seen last night?
  不过，阁下您听说昨天夜里人们看见的征兆了吗？
• The portent wound in corridors of shells.
  贝壳的回廊上那些带着异兆的伤。
• He must have seen Kaida's successful opposition as a portent of the collapse of his dream of a universal empire.
  他肯定发现，海都成功的反抗预示着他妄想称霸世界的美梦破灭。