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o·men 英ˈəʊmən美ˈomənAHDōʹmən ★☆☆☆☆高ＩＭＳ四八COCA²²¹⁷¹BNC²¹²⁰³iWeb¹⁶⁶¹⁷Economist²⁰⁴⁰⁷⁺⁸
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n.征兆³¹;预兆⁵³vt.预示¹⁶复数omens过去分词omened现在分词omening三单omens
预知
Noun:
a sign of something about to happen;he looked for an omen before going into battle
Verb:
indicate by signs;These signs bode bad news 来自拉丁语名词omen预兆，进一步来源存疑，前面的o可能源自原始印欧语词根*au-感知，后面加常见的名词后缀-men，整个单词的字面意思可能是“对吉凶的感知”。古罗马人最常采用的占卜术是飞鸟占卜法或内脏占卜法，即通过查看飞鸟的飞行方式和动物内脏情况来“感知吉凶”。absit omen避凶趋吉！ill-omened不吉的
GRE难词记忆omen→womenpl. 女人→女人发出的预兆 womenpl.女人⇒女人发出的预兆近义词 sign手势bode预示augury预言threat威胁portent前兆warning警告presage预感signify表示symptom症状predict预言augur占兆官betoken预示forecast预测foretell预言foretoken预兆prefigure预示indication指示foreshadow预示prognostic预兆的prodigy惊人的事物prognosticate预知prognostication预知foreboding不祥的预感portend 成为 … 的前兆…auspicate卜得吉兆而开始…premonition不祥的预感…
Pill-omeneda.不吉的恶兆的
动词91%,名词9%
用作名词A cleft lip or palate is not a curse oromen.唇裂或腭裂并非上天的诅咒，厄运的征兆。
What does the early daysomenof lung cancer have?肺癌的前期征兆有哪些？
Theomenof bankruptcy hung over the company.那家公司出现了破产的预兆。
Ancient people thought a lunar eclipse was a badomen.古代的人们相信月蚀是一种坏的预兆。用作及物动词Was this some twistedomen, a small suggestion of a dire fate awaiting him?这仅仅是一个预兆，预示着等待他的将是可怕的命运？
It is thought unlucky to see a hare in the morning but to meet a wolf or a bear is anomenthat hunting will be good.人们认为一大早看到野兔是会倒霉的，但如果碰到狼或熊则是一个好兆头，因为它将预示着狩猎的顺利。noun.sign of something to come
同义词 harbinger,indication,portent,premonitionaugury,auspice,boding,foreboding,foretoken,presage,prognostic,prognostication,prophecy,straw,warningbodement,writing on the wall
betokenverb indicate
assert,augur,bespeak,betide,denote,express,forebode,foreshadow,foreshow,import,note,portend,presage,show,signify,symbolize,witness
bodeverb to foreshadow
augur,betoken,forebode,forecast,foreshow,foretell,herald,indicate,message,offer,omen,portend,predict,presage,signify,stop
cautionnoun warning
admonition,advice,bug in one's ear,caveat,commonition,counsel,forewarning,hint,injunction,monition,notice,omen,premonition,sign,tip,tip-off
cautionary talenoun piece of advice
a few words of wisdom,admonition,advisory,caution light,caveat,deterrent example,enough said,event illustrating a hazard,forewarning,hint,lesson,message,moral,omen,portent,red flag,sign of things to come,wake-up call,warning,word to the wise
clairvoyancenoun intuition
ESP,acumen,discernment,feeling,foreknowledge,insight,omen,penetration,perception,precognition,premonition,psyche,sixth sense,telepathy
forebodeverb predict, warn
augur,betoken,bode,divine,forecast,foresee,foreshadow,foretell,foretoken,forewarn,indicate,omen,portend,premonish,presage,prognosticate,promise It was a bad omen last year when this freewheeling western conservative in the Reagan mould went off to court the intolerant Christian right.
当去年这位来自西部如里根总统一样随心所欲的保守派跑去追求他本不能容忍的基督教右派时，这种糟糕的征兆就有了苗头。 ecocn
It appears a short moment after he overtakes the Volvo: the omen.
佛教徒超车过了沃尔沃没多久，预兆出现了。 yeeyan
It would be a shockingly bad omen if Mr Gbagbo somehow hung on in any guise whatsoever Coted'Ivoire.
如果巴博先生通过各种伪装、利用各种方式将科特迪瓦政权抓住不放，这将是一个非常可怕的坏兆头。 ecocn
The first is that one culture’s lucky sign is often another’s omen of disaster. The second is that not everyone may experience an “ unlucky” event at once.
一是一些文化中的幸运符在另一些里往往是灾难的象征，二是并不是每个人都能即时的经历不幸遭遇。 ecocn
The Munda tribe see such a growth in young children as a bad omen and believe it makes them prone to attacks by tigers and other animals.
蒙达部落认为年幼的孩子长这样的牙齿是不祥之预兆，预示着这孩子将会遭到老虎或其他动物的袭击。 yeeyan
A more alarming omen is the 8% fall in German factory orders in September, led by weak foreign demand.
更令人担忧的预兆是，由于国外需求疲软，9月德国工厂的订单数量下降了8%。 ecocn
But at least one omen is encouraging.
但至少有一个兆头鼓舞人心。 ecocn
But the episode served as an omen of things to come.
但是这段运气不好的情节只是将来发生的事件的一个预兆。 yeeyan
Gold’s fall could be an omen in another way, too.
金价的下降也可能是另外一种方式的预兆。 ecocn
In Han esoteric texts, the nine- tailed fox is not a man- eating beast, but rather an auspicious omen.
汉代的神秘文献中，九尾狐不是吃人的野兽，而是吉祥的征兆。 yeeyan
It was the tallest and thickest I had ever seen, a good omen.
这是我见过的长得最高最密的玉米地，是一个好兆头。 yeeyan
Its example shows why low bond yields are not good news at all for equity and property markets in America and Europe. Instead they are a dreadful omen.
日本的经历表明，如此之低的债券收益率对于美欧的股票市场和房地产市场不是一件好事，而是一个可怕的预兆。 ecocn
Mr. Obama’s ability to attract wildly enthusiastic crowds to rallies is a good omen for the general election; so is his ability to raise large sums.
奥巴马吸引广大狂热的民众参加选战是大选的一个良好预兆，而他能够募集大量竞选资金的能力也很突出。 yeeyan
Not a good omen.
这不是一个好兆头。 yeeyan
Or is it an ominous omen?
又或者说是一种不祥的预兆？ yeeyan
The rising possibility that Mr Sarkozy will lose the presidential election in France in2012 is also a good omen for Turkey.
而萨科奇将在2012年法国大选中败北的可能性正逐步增大，这对土耳其来说也是好的预兆。 ecocn
With hindsight, Mr Zetsche's decision to appear in his firm's advertisements was itself a bad omen.
事后恍然大悟， Zetsche决定出现在公司广告中的想法本身是个不良征兆。 ecocn |