| 单词 | portent |
| 释义 | portent (once / 1336 pages) n While you might love crows, your father will shudder when he sees them if he superstitiously believes they're a portent — a sign or warning — of death. A portent is an omen of something momentous, which can be good, but is more often negative. You can use portent to mean a magical foretelling or symbol, but you can also use it to talk about something real, the way you could describe big, dark storm clouds as a portent of a thunderstorm. WORD FAMILYportent: portentous, portents+/portentous: portentously USAGE EXAMPLESFor followers of the Stock Trader’s Almanac and others who look for patterns in the stock market, those were resounding portents of financial doom. New York Times(Dec 15, 2016) Donald Trump’s victory may thus be only a particularly alarming portent for moderate progressives who, less than two decades ago, were confidently on the march. Washington Post(Dec 04, 2016) The Inupiat people who for centuries have hunted and fished on Alaska’s western coast believe that some dreams are portents of things to come. New York Times(Nov 29, 2016) n a sign of something about to happen Syn|Hypo|Hyper omen, presage, prodigy, prognostic, prognostication auspice a favorable omen forebodingan unfavorable omen death knellan omen of death or destruction augury, foretoken, preindication, sign an event that is experienced as indicating important things to come |
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