omens

英 [ˈəʊmɛnz]

美 [ˈoʊmənz]

n.  预兆; 前兆; 征兆
omen的复数

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT 征兆；预兆；兆头
  If you say that something is anomen, you think it indicates what is likely to happen in the future and whether it will be good or bad.
  1. Her appearance at this moment is an omen of disaster...
     她在此刻出现预示着一场灾难。
  2. Could this at last be a good omen for peace?
     这是否终于可以视作和平的吉兆了？

双语例句

• You're confident of the meaning of these omens?
  你确信那些神兆的意义吗？
• Such omens betide no good. Many of the physical features that make us attractive to one another are, in fact, signals of our health and fertility.
  许多使我们对他人具有吸引力的身体特征，其实是表现健康与生育能力的征兆。
• The omens are not auspicious.
  预兆并不乐观。
• By performing samyama on the two types of karma, active and dormant, or upon omens and portents, the exact time of death can be predicted.
  对当前和休眠的业，或对预兆与征兆作三夜摩（冥想），能预知死亡的准确时间。
• There are many omens existing before rock fracturing, which is an important research issue of rock mechanics and rock engineering.
  岩石破裂存在多种前兆，它是岩石力学和岩石工程中的一项重要研究内容。
• But the omens are bleak.
  但目前的兆头并不好。
• Such omens betide no good.
  这种征兆预示情况不妙。
• The omens for the game are still not propitious.
  这场比赛仍不被看好。
• Miracles are auspicious accidents; encouraging omens; a favorable time to ask for a raise; lucky stars; a prosperous moment to make a decision.
  奇迹就是幸运的事故；令人振奋的兆头；有利于要求提升的时机；幸运星；有利于做出决定的时机。
• I do not believe in omens. He speaks like a drunken man.
  希罗底王后：我才不信什么预兆呢，他说话像个醉鬼。