英语词汇“portend”的翻译、意思、用法、释义-英汉双解词典

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单词	portend
释义	por·tend /pɔːˈtend $ pɔːr-/ verb [transitive] literary SOONPREDICTto be a sign that something is going to happen, especially something bad 预示〔尤指不祥之事〕，为…的凶兆 strange events that portend disaster 预示着灾难的奇怪事件→ See Verb tableExamples from the Corpusportend• We need to set the standards now, and prepare for the theological and sociological turbulence this discovery portends.• For the cellular industry, this may portend a daunting new world.• Rising infection rates portend a health-care disaster.• She sees a shooting star and is heartened by whatever hope it might portend, but before long she is crying again.• The failure in New York portended even further trouble.• What universal debauchery this might portend for our nation!• Nature seems to portend no danger and is there to be utilised by Marlowe and his lover almost as a playground.• It might portend something more: the beginning of an ideological countertrend.• Everyone knew that its sound portended the death of some one in the house within the year.Origin portend (1400-1500) Latin portendere “to stretch forward”, from tendere “to stretch”por·tend verbChineseSyllable sign to something is Corpus that a be
随便看	bear testimony to something bear testimony to sth bear the brunt of bear the brunt of something bear the brunt of sth bear the mark of bear the mark of something bear the mark of sth bear up bear upon bear upon something bear upon sth bear with bear with sb bear with somebody bear with somebody/something bear with something bear with sth bear witness/testimony to something bear witness to bear witness to something bear witness to sth bear yourself be a sad commentary on be a sad commentary on something