inauspicious

adj.

1. 预示前景黯淡的；不祥的；不吉利的
   showing signs that the future will not be good or successful
   1. an inauspicious start
      不吉利的开头

1. ADJ-GRADED 不祥的;凶兆的;不吉利的
   An inauspicious event is one that gives signs that success is unlikely.
   1. The meeting got off to an inauspicious start when he was late.
      他迟到了,会议一开始就不顺利。

1. The meeting got off to an inauspicious start when he was late.
   他迟到了，会议一开始就不顺利。
2. From these inauspicious beginnings, the world of software development has given rise to numerous other myths.
   从这种误解开始，软件开发领域产生了很多荒谬的言论。
3. Ancient Chinese people thought that dreams can imply auspicious and inauspicious things.
   古人认为梦可以预示吉兆和恶运。
4. Luther, according to the scandal of his monkish enemies, was a brat of that hellish breed; nor was Pearl the only child to whom this inauspicious origin was assigned among the New England Puritans.
   按照路德②在教会中那些敌人的谣言，他本人就是那种恶魔的孽种；而在新英格兰的请教徒中闯，有这种可疑血缘的，可不仅仅珠儿一个孩子。
5. All along the way people make great efforts to avoid any inauspicious influence.
   一路上人们都会竭力避免不好的影响。
6. The typical answers were inauspicious.
   我看到的答案一般是负面的。
7. Answer: well, nobody may take it into much account, because it will be considered inauspicious.
   回答：每人会对这个问题多想的，因为可能会认为不太吉利。
8. The likeness is indeed true, but it is a dull, dead, unfeeling, inauspicious likeness.
   真的，它确实很象，但却是一种呆滞死板，暮气沉沉，毫无情感的相似。
9. The signs are inauspicious.
   种种迹象并不令人乐观。
10. Clearly, most investors have not seen higher commodity prices as inauspicious, merely as a symptom of robust global demand.
    很明显，大多数的投资者并没有将商品的高价看作凶兆，而只是作为大量全球需求的象征。
11. For China's estimated 130m migrant workers, this inauspicious start to the Year of the Ox is only likely to get worse.
    对于中国约1.3亿农民工而言，牛年开头就不吉利，而情况可能只会变得更糟。
12. This procedure is very inauspicious, usually we manage it to be called "the accident".
    这种做法是很不吉利的，通常我们管它叫“三长两短”。
13. Resulting or likely to result in misfortune; inauspicious. Conclusion ( 1) There is an association early awakening with psychomotor retardation in patients with depression.
    悲剧性的以不幸结束的或有可能以不幸结束的；不祥的结论（）郁症的早醒可能与精神运动性阻滞相关联。
14. Finding it so directly on the threshold of our narrative, which is now about to issue from that inauspicious portal, we could hardly do otherwise than pluck one of its flowers, and present it to the reader.
    既然我们要讲述的故事要从这一不样的门口开篇，而恰恰在门限处一眼便可望见这丛野玫瑰，我们怎能不摘下一朵玫瑰花，将其呈献给读者呢！
15. Since their inauspicious beginnings, all four of these units have embarked on a path that has taken them far from their original mandate of debt resolution units to becoming quasi-boutique investment banks.
    从不吉利的起点出发后，四家资产管理公司所走的道路全都远远偏离了处置不良债务的初衷，而摇身变成了准精品投资银行。
16. Bad luck has it that most primary commodity and food prices have risen at this most inauspicious time.
    不幸的是，在这个最不顺利的时间点上，多数主要大宗商品及食品价格都已上升。
17. The world's newest long-haul budget airline got off to an inauspicious start yesterday after its debut flight from Hong Kong to London was cancelled because it lacked permission to fly over Russia.
    上星期，世界最新的长途经济航空公司在香港首航不顺利。由于没有飞越俄国上空的批准，该公司由香港飞往伦敦的航班在首天被逼取消。
18. After an inauspicious start, Scotland went on to win the match by three goals to two.
    在不顺的开场之后，苏格兰队最终以3比2赢了比赛。
19. The Chinese people stress to send gifts in pairs, for odd numbers are regarded as inauspicious.
    中国人送礼物时很强调双数，因为单数被认为不吉利。
20. FORLORN shop facing a dusty car park in one of the poorest parts of Phoenix, Arizona, is an inauspicious place to start a closely watched experiment in global retailing.
    在亚利桑那州凤凰城最穷的一个地方，有一个尘土遍地的停车场，对面就是一个孤零零的商店。在这样一个全球零售业密切关注的国家把店开到这里肯定不是上上选。
21. 9/ 11 ( 2001) another inauspicious start to the decade.
    9•11（2001）本十年又一不祥开端。
22. Dutch statisticians have established that Friday13th, a date regarded in many countries as inauspicious, is actually safer than an average Friday.
    翻译公司最新消息：荷兰统计学家日前公布，在很多国家被认为不吉利的黑色星期五其实比普通星期五更安全。
23. The Chinese people stress to send gifts in pairs, for odd numbers are regarded as inauspicious. So, dual Euler method is better than quaternion method in the solution of the singularity of the Euler equation.
    中国人一般讲究礼品成双，因为奇数被视为不吉利。因此，对于解决欧拉方程奇异性来讲，双欧法要优于四元数法。
24. The open desolation at the foot of the walls and their towering height filled him with foreboding as he went, so much so that he even skirted crows scavenging on the rubbish heaps for fear of startling them into inauspicious cawing.
    城根的空旷，与城墙的高峻，教他越走越怕。偶尔看见垃圾堆上有几个老鸦，他都想绕着走开，恐怕惊起它们，给他几声不祥的啼叫。
25. It is inauspicious to walk under a ladder.
    从梯子下走过是不吉利的。
26. With these inauspicious circumstances, it is no surprise the IMF is rapidly burying its multilateral consultations on global imbalances.
    由于这些不利的环境，难怪国际货币基金组织迅速结束了关于全球失衡问题的多边磋商。
27. It mainly includes two parts: auspicious& inauspicious signs from heaven.
    它主要包括天显祥瑞和天降灾异两个方面。
28. According to the five ceremonies auspicious, inauspicious, fine, guest, military, we analyze the jade articles 'distinctive status and important effect in the ceremony civilization.
    分别从这个时期吉、凶、宾、军、嘉五礼，分析玉器在礼制文明中的独特地位和重要作用。