Ominous
['ɒmɪnəs] or ['ɑmɪnəs]
解釋/意思:
(a.) Of or pertaining to an omen or to omens; being or exhibiting an omen; significant; portentous; -- formerly used both in a favorable and unfavorable sense; now chiefly in the latter; foreboding or foreshowing evil; inauspicious; as, an ominous dread.
贺拉斯校對
同義詞及近義詞：
a. Portentous, monitory, premonitory.
艾维斯編輯
同義詞及反義詞：
SYN:Portentous, suggestive, threatening, foreboding, premonitory, unpropitious
ANT:Auspicious, propitious, encouraging
錄入:伦纳德
解釋/意思:
adj. pertaining to or containing an omen: foreboding evil: inauspicious.—adv. Om′inously.—n. Om′inousness.
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例句/造句/用法:
- That sounded ominous. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歷險記.
- He swore ominous oaths over the drugged beer of alehouses, and drank strange toasts in fiery British gin. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- A ground sea was heard; the thunder of its progress, as the waters rolled and swelled beneath me, became every moment more ominous and terrific. 瑪麗·雪萊. 弗蘭肯斯坦.
- The talk took refuge in less ominous topics; but everything they touched on seemed to confirm Mrs. Archer's sense of an accelerated trend. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 純真年代.
- Wherever I looked I saw the ominous words that ran in it repeated. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- He was thankful for the fact, yet felt it to be vaguely ominous. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 純真年代.
- Our child is dead, and the present hour is dark and ominous. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- That something wanting was my own recognition of the ominous likeness between the fugitive from the asylum and my pupil at Limmeridge House. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- Both Helena and her lover grew pale at these ominous words. 福爾斯·休姆. 奇幻島.
- To Lily this attitude was the most ominous, because the most perplexing, element in the situation. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 快樂之家.
- She told me quite cheerfully, not as an ominous circumstance, which I felt it to be. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- An ominous crowd gathered to see him dismount of the posting-yard, and many voices called out loudly, Down with the emigrant! 查理斯·狄更斯. 雙城記.
- Cedric would have avoided pledging her in this ominous conviviality, but the sign which she made to him expressed impatience and despair. 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
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