portent

noun

1. 预兆；征兆；先兆；（尤指）恶兆，凶兆
   a sign or warning of sth that is going to happen in the future, especially when it is sth unpleasant

1. N-COUNT 预兆；征兆
   A portent is something that indicates what is likely to happen in the future.
   1. The savage civil war there could be a portent of what's to come in the rest of the region...
      那里发生的野蛮内战可能预示这一地区其他地方将会发生什么。
   2. I hope this is a portent for the rest of the year...
      我希望这对今年余下的时间是个兆头。
   3. As for her engagement with Adam, I would say the portents are gloomy.
      至于她和亚当的婚约，我看兆头不妙。

1. The savage civil war there could be a portent of what's to come in the rest of the region
   那里发生的野蛮内战可能预示这一地区其他地方将会发生什么。
2. I hope this is a portent for the rest of the year
   我希望这对今年余下的时间是个兆头。
3. As for her engagement with Adam, I would say the portents are gloomy.
   至于她和亚当的婚约，我看兆头不妙。
4. I have become like a portent to many, but you are my strong refuge.
   许多人都把我视作妖怪，你却作了我有力的仰赖。
5. But did your reverence hear of the portent that was seen last night?
   不过，阁下您听说昨天夜里人们看见的征兆了吗？
6. Should we treat low volatility as an eerie portent of disaster in the making, or as a sign that the world economy is finally on the right track?
   我们应将低波动性看成是一种预示灾难正在形成的可怕征兆，还是一种暗示世界经济终于走上正轨的信号？
7. This turns out to be a portent of one of the biggest changes since the 1960s.
   结果发现这是1960年代以来最大变化的一个预示。
8. Whether that number should be seen as a portent, of course, is too soon to tell.
   当然，现在要说这个数字是否应该视为一种征兆，还为时尚早。
9. That is what is so unsettling about today's China: Its authoritarian capitalism may not be merely a remainder of our past but a portent of our future.
   这就是为什么大家对于今天中国会感到如此不安的地方：它的威权资本主义不单单是我们过去的某个剩余物，还可能是我们未来的预兆。
10. Viral "Blips": Benign or Portent of Bad Things to Come?
    病毒“信号”：坏事情到来的征兆？
11. He feared this portent and tried to banish it from his mind, mollify it erase it-but it kept returning.
    他害怕这个不祥的预兆，想方设法把它从脑子里撵出去，平息它，消除它&但是它总是返回来。
12. There came a Saturday morning ugly with the portent of storm.
    有一个星期六早上，天昏地暗，暴风雨将临。
13. Even if a slowdown is happening, however, it is less a portent of a double dip than confirmation that the recovery will be a long slog.
    不过，即使经济正在放缓，那也不是二次探底的征兆，而是经济复苏征途漫漫的印证。
14. The portent wound in corridors of shells.
    贝壳的回廊上那些带着异兆的伤。
15. He must have seen Kaida's successful opposition as a portent of the collapse of his dream of a universal empire.
    他肯定发现，海都成功的反抗预示着他妄想称霸世界的美梦破灭。
16. Is it true that cows lying down in a field are a portent of rain?
    母牛躺在田里就预示着要下雨，这是不是真的？
17. The downgrading of some of its banks this week was a portent of that.
    一些德国银行本周信用评级被下调就预示着这种情况的发生。
18. The broad, tree-lined boulevards and European architecture are witness to its past, the glass-walled towers that soar skywards a portent of its future.
    宽阔的林荫大道和欧式建筑见证着历史，高耸入云的摩天大厦预示着未来。
19. The link between this chilling portent and the blue dragons remains unclear, but Anachronos has called upon what some of his kind deem the "short-lived" races to investigate further.
    虽然这一惊人的预兆和蓝龙之间的联系尚不明朗，但是阿纳克洛斯已经号召那些他眼中的“短命”种族前往一探究竟。
20. Are dreams a portent of things to come?
    梦是不是将要发生的事情的预兆？
21. In a worrying portent of contagion the spread of Austrian, French and Dutch bond yields over German Bunds also shot up, though to levels still well below those of Italy and Spain.
    出于对危机蔓延的担忧，奥地利、法国、荷兰债券收益与德国债券的价差同样飙升，尽管仍远低于意大利和西班牙。
22. So these changes are only a minor portent of what is likely to come, especially if we continue on our carbon-profligate pathway.
    因此，这些变化只是未来可能发生情况的微小征兆，尤其是如果我们继续肆意排放二氧化碳。
23. I see it as a portent of things to come.
    我把它看作是将要到来的事物的前兆。
24. Based on the analyses for portent information of power sytem failures, This paper proposes a hierarchical causal diagnostic model.
    本文分析了电网故障时所表现出的故障征兆信息的特点，在此基础上提出一种分层因果智能诊断模型，这种方法有更好的适应性。
25. ET might be the important factor to cause vasoconstriction, resulting in the portent symptoms.
    ET可能是导致血管收缩，引起先兆症状的重要因子。
26. The analysis of fracture failure for loom barrel arbor was explored with macroanalysis, microanalysis and metallographic inspection method. The result indicates that barrel ardor fracture is belong to fragile shear fracture without any obvious fracture portent, fracture may be caused by moment impact overloading.
    通过宏观和微观的断口形貌观察和金相分析，对织机卷筒轴断裂失效原因进行了分析，认为卷筒轴断裂属于无明显断裂前兆的脆性剪切断裂，断裂有可能由瞬时冲击过载引起。
27. Cows are treated as "Five Cereals God" for totemism, which has strong reproductivity. Thus, cows are looked upon as a token to bring humans a bumper grain harvest and propitious portent.
    牛还作为图腾崇拜的五谷神，具有很强的繁殖能力，因此牛被看作能带来五谷丰登和瑞兆的财富的象征。
28. Microseismic monitoring technique is a new geophysical technology, which originates from 1990s. Through monitoring microseism incident of the mine, we can find portent of geological hazard in time, and take measures to avoid casualty.
    微震监测技术是一种新的物探技术，起源于20世纪90年代。通过监测矿井微震事件的发生可以及时发现地质灾害事故的前兆，并及时采取有效措施，避免灾害事故发生。
29. From portent to eruption, financial crisis is a process from quantitative change to qualitative change.
    企业的财务危机从出现征兆到完全爆发是一个由量变积累到质变的过程。

noun

1. a sign of something about to happen
   1. he looked for an omen before going into battle

   Synonym:    omenpresageprognosticprognosticationprodigy