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auspice

/aw-spis/US // ˈɔ spɪs //UK // (ˈɔːspɪs) //

祥瑞,祥云,祥子,祥和

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n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural aus·pic·es [aw-spuh-siz]. /ˈɔ spə sɪz/.

    • : Usually auspices . patronage; support; sponsorship: under the auspices of the Department of Education.
    • : Often auspices . a favorable sign or propitious circumstance.
    • : a divination or prognostication, originally from observing birds.

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Examples

  • A lateral move in the offing provides opportunity to trailblaze new frontiers under existing career auspice.

  • This form of divination, so well known to the Romans, is still kept in remembrance by the use of the words augury and auspice.

  • Love had been a star of evil auspice for the women of the Medici family!

  • But if you wish to make sure whether it is a good auspice or a bad, you kill the spider and count its legs.

  • Now with good auspice urged along, with mutual minds they love and are beloved.

  • From thence, "Tencro duce et auspice Tencro," I will try to find out my little dairy.

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