Augur
['ɔːgə] or ['ɔgɚ]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) (ancient Rome) a religious official who interpreted omens to guide public policy.
(verb.) predict from an omen.
編輯:罗赞娜--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) An official diviner who foretold events by the singing, chattering, flight, and feeding of birds, or by signs or omens derived from celestial phenomena, certain appearances of quadrupeds, or unusual occurrences.
(n.) One who foretells events by omens; a soothsayer; a diviner; a prophet.
(v. i.) To conjecture from signs or omens; to prognosticate; to foreshow.
(v. i.) To anticipate, to foretell, or to indicate a favorable or an unfavorable issue; as, to augur well or ill.
(v. t.) To predict or foretell, as from signs or omens; to betoken; to presage; to infer.
杰米整理
同義詞及近義詞:
n. Soothsayer, prophet, fortune-teller.
v. n. Prophesy, conjecture, predict, guess.
v. a. Portend, forebode, presage, foreshow, foreshadow, prognosticate, betoken, foretell, predict, prophesy, be ominous of.
昌西整理
解釋/意思:
n. among the Romans one who gained knowledge of secret or future things by observing the flight and the cries of birds: a diviner; a soothsayer.—v.t. to foretell from signs.—v.i. to guess or conjecture: to forebode.—adj. Au′gural.—ns. Au′gurship; Au′gury the art or practice of auguring: an omen.—The words Au′gurate and Augurā′tion are obsolete.
整理:莱昂内尔
娱乐性解釋/意思:
To see augurs in your dreams, is a forecast of labor and toil.
霍华德編輯
娱乐性解釋/意思:
One who bored the ancients with prophecies.
多米尼克整理
例句/造句/用法:
- Mrs. Bute did not augur much good to the cause from the sending of her son James as an ambassador, and saw him depart in rather a despairing mood. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- If he were to be very alert in engaging Jane Fairfax now, it might augur something. 簡·奧斯丁. 愛瑪.
- We remained over a day, hoping that Augur might recover sufficiently to resume his travels. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U.S.格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- Not to know that there is something wrong at the Dedlocks' is to augur yourself unknown. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- Lieutenant Augur was taken seriously sick before we reached Goliad and at a distance from any habitation. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U.S.格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- From the exterior of George's Shooting Gallery, and the long entry, and the bare perspective beyond it, Allan Woodcourt augurs well. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- With earth-augurs, drills, and drill cleaning and clearing and fishing apparatus, and devices for creating a new flow of oil, and tubing, new forms of packing, etc. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- Lady Jane had heard of the Colonel's arrival, and was waiting for her husband in the adjoining dining-room, with female instinct, auguring evil. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- It was remarked that Mr. Osborne was particularly quiet and gentle all day, to the surprise of those who had augured ill from his darkling demeanour. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- Maria thought that her father was very much pleased with her, and Frederick augured the best for his little son and heir. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- From the first she had augured ill of Mme. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 快樂之家.
- Crawley and his wife both of them augured evil from the continued presence of Mrs. Bute. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
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