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单词 bode
释义
bode
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The verb bode suggests forecasting. Something bodes well when the clues or signs imply a favorable outcome. But if something bodes ill, you’d better watch out!
Something might bode good fortune, or it could bode disaster. The word, which can be traced back to the Old English bodian "to announce, foretell," is also found in the adjective foreboding, which means "ominous, boding ill."
WORD FAMILY
bode: boded, bodes, boding, forebode+/boding: bodings/forebode: foreboded, forebodes, foreboding/foreboding: forebodingly, forebodings
USAGE EXAMPLES
But his campaign suggestions - more deep space exploration, less Earth science - seem to bode well for Alabama and for Marshall Space Flight Center.
Washington Times(Jan 02, 2017)
This all doesn’t bode well for Western Michigan on Monday.
New York Times(Jan 02, 2017)
None of these boded well for investor sentiment or subsequent returns.
Washington Post(Dec 30, 2016)
v indicate by signs
These signs bode bad news
Syn|Hypo|Hyper
augur, auspicate, betoken, forecast, foreshadow, foretell, omen, portend, predict, prefigure, presage, prognosticate
threaten
to be a menacing indication of something:"The clouds threaten rain"
foreshow
foretell by divine inspiration
bespeak, betoken, indicate, point, signal
be a signal for or a symptom of
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