Auspice
['ɔːspɪs] or ['ɔspɪs]
解釋/意思:
(a.) A divining or taking of omens by observing birds; an omen as to an undertaking, drawn from birds; an augury; an omen or sign in general; an indication as to the future.
(a.) Protection; patronage and care; guidance.
杜威手打
同義詞及近義詞：
n. Omen, AUGURY, sign, portent, presage, prognostic.
哈罗德手打
解釋/意思:
n. an omen drawn from observing birds: augury—generally used in pl. Au′spices protection: patronage: a good start (generally in phrase Under the auspices of).—v.t. Au′spicate to foreshow: to initiate or inaugurate with hopes of good luck:—pr.p. au′spicāting; pa.p. au′spicāted.—adj. Auspi′cious having good auspices or omens of success: favourable: fortunate: propitious.—adv. Auspi′ciously.—n. Auspi′ciousness.
整理:谢尔登
例句/造句/用法:
- It is for your sake that I wish you, under the auspices of Mrs General, to form a--hum--a surface. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- He then laid a telegraph from Washington to Baltimore under the auspices of the United States Government, which after long hesitation appropriated $30,000 for the purpose. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- In May, 1879, an international congress was convened, under the auspices of Ferdinand de Lesseps, to consider the question of the best location and plan of the canal. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- I might enter Florence under happier auspices a month hence and find it all beautiful, all attractive. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- The various interests were combined in a corporation under whose auspices the system was installed on the Lehigh Valley Railroad, where it was used for several years. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- But this boon to Ireland, it is to be hoped, has been granted under more fortunate auspices than all those to America. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- There must have been great intellectual friction going on there under the auspices of such a man! 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- Under what auspices? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- I trust we shall meet under less melancholy auspices. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
錄入:朱迪思