Omen
['əʊmən] or ['omən]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) a sign of something about to happen; 'he looked for an omen before going into battle'.
迪莉娅編輯--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(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.
錄入:西德尼
同義詞及近義詞：
n. Prognostic, presage, augury, foreboding, portent, auspice, sign.
杜安整理
同義詞及反義詞：
SYN:Augury, sign, presage, portent, forboding, prognostic,[See PRESAGE]
安塞姆校對
解釋/意思:
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.
校對:佩德罗
娱乐性解釋/意思：
n. A sign that something will happen if nothing happens.
錄入:勒达
例句/造句/用法:
- This was an evil omen. 簡·奧斯丁. 曼斯費爾德莊園.
- And very much indebted for the omen. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- 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. 福爾斯·休姆. 奇幻島.
- There was something almost bridal in his own aspect: his large white gardenia had a symbolic air that struck Lily as a good omen. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 快樂之家.
- 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. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- Was he a messenger, an omen of the universal dissolution into whiteness and snow? 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- 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. 福爾斯·休姆. 奇幻島.
- Not a bad idea; the head will serve for my new coinage, and be an omen to all dutiful subjects of my future success. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- Thou art a thing of bad omen. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 喪鐘為誰而鳴.
- This is a good omen for you. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- I accept the omen. 福爾斯·休姆. 奇幻島.
- Hope beckons and sorrow urges us, the heart beats high with expectation, and this eager desire of change must be an omen of success. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- It will be a good omen for me. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- 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. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- All such things are of evil omen. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 喪鐘為誰而鳴.
- 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·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
- Comets, meteors, an d eclipses were considered as omens portending pestilence, national disaster, or the fate of kings. 李貝. 西洋科學史.
- I dangers dared; I hindrance scorned; I omens did defy: Whatever menaced, harassed, warned, I passed impetuous by. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- I met several funerals; they were slenderly attended by mourners, and were regarded by the spectators as omens of direst import. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- Ghouls, vampires, omens, dreams, and all those grewsome things, he used to revel in. 福爾斯·休姆. 奇幻島.
- Sunshine and laughter were good omens for a pleasure party, and soon a lively bustle began in both houses. 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
- And so the journey began with the good omens of sunshine, smiles, and cheerful words. 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
校對:菲利斯