augury

1 That moment. One language ready-made augury. I have left really.

那个时候。一语成谶。我真的离开了。

2 “Really, Octavian? Maybe harpies are different here, on the Roman side. Ours have just enough intelligence to clean cabins and cook lunches. Do yours usually foretell the future? Do you consult them for your auguries?”

3 Within its air of metropolitan disdain lurked an augury of England’s post-Brexit identity crisis, in which the country appears permanently torn between the deflating liberal dreams still harbored in the cities and the backlash fermenting in the provinces left behind.

4 Yet landbirds flying from starboard crossed his bow— a lucky augury.

5 At last, the augury came ture unexpectedly.

最后，这句谶语居然应验了。

6 These losses, and the auguries of them haunting the play, could not have been separable from the reception it received.

7 “Vitellius,” Hazel interrupted, “we’ve got to get Percy’s augury before he can join. Why don’t you check on Frank? He’s in the armory doing inventory. You know how much he values your help.”

8 The auguries were not favorable for a Pétain acquittal.

9 During the past 14 years of drought, the Colorado River Delta has been a living augury of the Colorado River and the ever-expanding swell of Southwesterners who depend on it.

10 Epigenetic clocks – a form of molecular augury – were first developed in 2011 and claim to offer a glimpse into the future.

11 The emperor blindly worshipped divination by augury and mystical intepretation of Confucianist texts.

这位皇帝非常迷信谶纬之言.

12 The auguries of death are fast gathering round his head.

死亡凶兆迅速地在他脑海中盘旋。

13 It’s a nice augury for a new company seeking to occupy new, exurban ground.

14 They started well but that would prove a false augury in a half in which United were dismal until the last 10 minutes.

15 Orwell adds, “I don’t think it a good augury for the future of the English language that ‘marigold’ should be dropped in favour of ‘calendula.’

16 Song-of-the-summer predictions are almost as tiresome and fallible as election auguries, so we’ll leave it to someone else to make a claim for this one.

17 “He... Oh. The augury? Yeah, teddy bears must have nightmares about that guy. But you’re in! We need to get you cleaned up before evening muster.”

18 So the idea arose that comets were harbingers of disaster, auguries of divine wrath—that they foretold the deaths of princes, the fall of kingdoms.

19 As an augury of such bliss, the water around them shines like melting gold.

20 The maritime passage was a good augury for the aerial passage.

顺利的航海仿佛也是航空的好预兆。

1 预兆

type sign forerunner auspice prognostic presage foretoken monition pre-echo augur prefigure a straw in the wind portentous threat omen portent prognostication portend adumbrate warning prophetic symptom shadow messenger precursor divination shape forecast bode ominous herald earnest prognosis foreboding foretell harbinger signal promise preview fair warning aural boding precursory preludial bodeful premonitor bodement seal prelude prodigy typology prefiguration adumbration prognosticate foreshadow betide prefigurative preecho weird indication token heraldry figura dawn fatidic prophetically Earnest portentousness betoken forebode foreshow

2 预示

premonitory harbinger foreshadow foretell portend augur presage prefigure betoken

3 占卜

divination scapulimancy divine throw the bones auspice sortilege augur mantic read auspicial augural crystal sortes auspicate cast crystal-ball sooth saying divining conjecture fortune-telling horoscope

4 征兆

sign symptom threat omen forerunner portent foretaste bellwether foretoken smoke signal a straw in the wind evidence auspice denote antecedent sign rumblings seal monition hint signal promise intimation glimmering premonitor indication prognostic premonition warning shadow prefiguration