单词 | ill-omened |
释义 | ill-omened (once / 8841 pages) adj WORD FAMILY omened: ill-omened+/omen: omened, omening, omens, ominous/ominous: ominously USAGE EXAMPLESProtected from the sun, ignoring Piggy's ill-omened talk, he dreamed pleasantly. William Golding, Lord of the Flies(1954) There was no law, not even an unwritten law, against frequenting the Chestnut Tree Cafe, yet the place was somehow ill-omened. George Orwell, 1984(1949) We observed the warning and made the best possible time to a cranny in the ill-omened “Windy Cape.” Lyman, William Denison, The Columbia River—Its History, Its...(2012) adj marked by or promising bad fortune Syn doomed, ill-fated, ill-starred, unlucky unfortunate not favored by fortune; marked or accompanied by or resulting in ill fortune |
随便看 |
|
英语词典包含147318条英英释义在线翻译词条,基本涵盖了全部常用单词的英英翻译及用法,是英语学习的有利工具。