portent

过去式：

动词过去式: portended

更多词形：

动词过去式: portended | 动词过去分词: portended | 动词现在分词: portending | 动词第三人称单数: portends |

单词例句：

Their attempts were a portent of what was to follow though as Chelsea took the lead in the 16th minute through Lampard.

他们的努力直到16分钟才收获进球，兰帕德打破僵局。

They were probably a portent of the shape of things to come in the Orient.

观在，再也不可能如此容易地对付中国共产主义了。

Usually death occurs without a portent.

事件发生突然，往往无明显先兆。

Behind the black portent of the new atomic age lies a hope which, seized upon with faith, can work our salvation.

在新的原子时代，黑暗的不祥之兆背后存在着希望：如果人们抱着信念抓住这希望，那麽它就能拯救我们；

The broad, tree-lined boulevards and European architecture are witness to its past, the glass-walled towers that soar skywards a portent of its future.

宽阔的林荫大道和欧式建筑见证着历史，高耸入云的摩天大厦预示着未来。

Betoken:To be or give a sign or portent of.

预示:做或给出记号或预兆。

In people's view, mask is both holy and portent, and thus mask taboo comes into being.

面具在一般人的心目中,是神灵、魂、先的化身和载体,它既是神圣之物,也是危险、祥之物,由此产生了对面具的禁忌。

Third and we believe that this is equal in portent to the actual discovery, there is the storehouse itself.

第三点，我们相信，这次发现等同于实际发现，或称为继续发现的先兆，因为我们拥有这座宝库。

We have thrown all the light we could acquire upon the portent, and would gladly, now that it has done its office, erase its deep print out of our own brain, where long meditation has fixed it in very undesirable distinctness.

关于这件怪事，我们所能掌握的情况已经全都披露了，既然这一任务已经完成，而长时间的思考已在我们的头脑中印下了并非我们所愿的清晰印象，我们倒很高兴把这深深的印记抹掉。