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

• So these changes are only a minor portent of what is likely to come, especially if we continue on our carbon-profligate pathway.
  因此，这些变化只是未来可能发生情况的微小征兆，尤其是如果我们继续肆意排放二氧化碳。
• 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。
• The broad, tree-lined boulevards and European architecture are witness to its past, the glass-walled towers that soar skywards a portent of its future.
  宽阔的林荫大道和欧式建筑见证着历史，高耸入云的摩天大厦预示着未来。
• The link between this chilling portent and the blue dragons remains unclear, but Anachronos has called upon what some of his kind deem the "short-lived" races to investigate further.
  虽然这一惊人的预兆和蓝龙之间的联系尚不明朗，但是阿纳克洛斯已经号召那些他眼中的“短命”种族前往一探究竟。
• Based on the analyses for portent information of power sytem failures, This paper proposes a hierarchical causal diagnostic model.
  本文分析了电网故障时所表现出的故障征兆信息的特点，在此基础上提出一种分层因果智能诊断模型，这种方法有更好的适应性。
• Are dreams a portent of things to come?
  梦是不是将要发生的事情的预兆？
• 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。
• 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。
• The portent wound in corridors of shells.
  贝壳的回廊上那些带着异兆的伤。
• This turns out to be a portent of one of the biggest changes since the 1960s.
  结果发现这是1960年代以来最大变化的一个预示。