单词	portent
释义	portentpor‧tent /ˈpɔːtent $ ˈpɔːr-/ noun [countable] literary Examples EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS Biblical writings, which lie at the root of Western culture, make numerous mention of portents in the heavens. Consequently, the parents often seize on anything as a portent which confirms their wishes. His faith never wavered, even when Albert became so disturbed by the portents that he could not sleep and fell ill. Pundits tried not to read too much symbolic portent into the calamity. The portents are not what one would call auspicious. Their first meeting was a portent. Were there signs and portents in the sky on the night I was born? a sign or warning that something is going to happen SYN  omenportent of Some people believe the raven is a portent of death.
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