harbinger
英 [ˈhɑːbɪndʒə(r)]
美 [ˈhɑːrbɪndʒər]
n. (常指坏的)预兆，兆头
vt. 预告; 充做…的前驱
复数：harbingers 现在分词：harbingering 过去式：harbingered 第三人称单数：harbingers 过去分词：harbingered
BNC.20456 / COCA.16191
牛津词典
noun
- （常指坏的）预兆，兆头
a sign that shows that sth is going to happen soon, often sth bad
柯林斯词典
- N-COUNT （尤指不祥的）先兆，预兆
Something that is aharbinger ofsomething else, especially something bad, is a sign that it is going to happen.- The November air stung my cheeks, a harbinger of winter.
11月的空气刺痛了我的脸颊，预示着冬天就要来临。
- The November air stung my cheeks, a harbinger of winter.
英英释义
noun
- something that precedes and indicates the approach of something or someone
verb
- foreshadow or presage
双语例句
- The shift of deposits and money out of Scotland this week is a harbinger.
上周存款和资金流出苏格兰，就是一个兆头。 - Whether the recent break is a harbinger of trouble will dominate debate in the short term.
近日的突破是否预示着麻烦将至，这将成为短期内人们争论的热点。 - If not its cause, others may wonder if the swooning equity market is the harbinger of economic distress.
如果说股市暴跌不是经济萧条的元凶，那么人们可能想知道，它是否是经济低迷的先兆。 - The bullish message was reinforced a day later when NSN clinched a$ 7bn deal with Harbinger Capital Partners, a New York hedge fund, to build and operate a new fourth-generation US mobile network.
仅仅一天之后，这一乐观情绪又得到了加强&NSN与纽约对冲基金HarbingerCapitalPartners达成了一项70亿美元的交易，将一同在美国建设并运营一个新的第四代移动网络。 - The massive cloud that converges in the firmament above is a hulking harbinger of China's impending change.
汇聚在天空中的大朵白云成为中国即将发生的变化的拙劣先兆。 - For the Maya, a smoking volcano wasn't always a harbinger of doom.
对于玛雅人而言，一座冒烟的火山并不永远意味着厄运的凶兆。 - Without that change, the resolution of this crisis can only be the harbinger of the next.
不做出这一改变，这场危机的解决只能预示着下一场危机的到来。 - The November air stung my cheeks, a harbinger of winter.
11月的空气刺痛了我的脸颊，预示着冬天就要来临。 - Still, France's left is casting the results from Sunday's vote as a harbinger of two bigger elections next year-for the presidency and lower house.
尽管如此，星期天的投票预示着法国的左派在明年两个更大的选举成绩，这两个选举就是总统选举和国民议会选举。 - Libya has been a harbinger.
利比亚是一个前兆。