Omen
['əʊmən] or ['omən]
解释:
(noun.) a sign of something about to happen; 'he looked for an omen before going into battle'.
迪莉娅编辑--From WordNet
解释:
(n.) An occurrence supposed to portend, or show the character of, some future event; any indication or action regarded as a foreshowing; a foreboding; a presage; an augury.
(v. t.) To divine or to foreshow by signs or portents; to have omens or premonitions regarding; to predict; to augur; as, to omen ill of an enterprise.
录入:西德尼
同义词及近义词：
n. Prognostic, presage, augury, foreboding, portent, auspice, sign.
杜安整理
同义词及反义词：
SYN:Augury, sign, presage, portent, forboding, prognostic,[See PRESAGE]
安塞姆校对
解释:
n. a sign of some future event either good or evil: a foreboding.—v.i. and v.t. to prognosticate: to predict.—adj. O′mened containing omens mostly with prefixes as ill-omened.
校对:佩德罗
娱乐性解释：
n. A sign that something will happen if nothing happens.
录入:勒达
例句:
- This was an evil omen. 简·奥斯汀. 曼斯菲尔德庄园.
- And very much indebted for the omen. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
- Death on the cards, love in the stars, and the muttered prophecies of crouching hags, terrified at the omen of flying bat, of shrieking night-bird. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
- There was something almost bridal in his own aspect: his large white gardenia had a symbolic air that struck Lily as a good omen. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
- You took me by surprise,' said Mr Rokesmith, 'and it sounded like an omen, that you should speak of showing the Dead to one so young and blooming. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
- Was he a messenger, an omen of the universal dissolution into whiteness and snow? 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
- Justinian, however, abandoned such cognomen as of evil omen, and called it The Western Pass, by which title it was generally called by the Melnosians. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
- Not a bad idea; the head will serve for my new coinage, and be an omen to all dutiful subjects of my future success. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
- Thou art a thing of bad omen. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
- This is a good omen for you. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
- I accept the omen. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
- Hope beckons and sorrow urges us, the heart beats high with expectation, and this eager desire of change must be an omen of success. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
- It will be a good omen for me. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
- Mr. Vholes, said my guardian, eyeing his black figure as if he were a bird of ill omen, has brought an ugly report of our most unfortunate Rick. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
- All such things are of evil omen. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
- A stealthy glance now and then refreshed her like sips of fresh water after a dusty walk, for the sidelong peeps showed her several propitious omens. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
- Comets, meteors, an d eclipses were considered as omens portending pestilence, national disaster, or the fate of kings. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
- I dangers dared; I hindrance scorned; I omens did defy: Whatever menaced, harassed, warned, I passed impetuous by. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
- I met several funerals; they were slenderly attended by mourners, and were regarded by the spectators as omens of direst import. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
- Ghouls, vampires, omens, dreams, and all those grewsome things, he used to revel in. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
- Sunshine and laughter were good omens for a pleasure party, and soon a lively bustle began in both houses. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
- And so the journey began with the good omens of sunshine, smiles, and cheerful words. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
校对:菲利斯