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

• There came a Saturday morning ugly with the portent of storm.
  有一个星期六早上，天昏地暗，暴风雨将临。
• He feared this portent and tried to banish it from his mind, mollify it erase it-but it kept returning.
  他害怕这个不祥的预兆，想方设法把它从脑子里撵出去，平息它，消除它&但是它总是返回来。
• ET might be the important factor to cause vasoconstriction, resulting in the portent symptoms.
  ET可能是导致血管收缩，引起先兆症状的重要因子。
• 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。
• 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。
• Viral "Blips": Benign or Portent of Bad Things to Come?
  病毒“信号”：坏事情到来的征兆？
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。