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portend

/pawr-tend, pohr-/US // pɔrˈtɛnd, poʊr- //UK // (pɔːˈtɛnd) //

预示着,预报,预告,预示

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Definitions

v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to indicate in advance; to foreshadow or presage, as an omen does: The street incident may portend a general uprising.
    • : to signify; mean.

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Examples

  • More than mRNA vaccines themselves, these lipid nanoparticles may portend big changes in pharmaceutical development.

  • Skeptics argue the cryptocurrency’s famed volatility portends a repeat of what happened three years ago, when a bubble burst spectacularly.

  • Including one Wall Street indicator that could portend bad things to come for growth investors.

  • In June, Disney announced that it was combining its own and Hulu’s ad tech teams into one organization, which likely portends a consolidation of the ad technology the two teams use.

  • How value’s steep descent and growth’s ongoing explosion portend a stunning reversal of fortunes is the subject of an excellent new article, “Value in Recessions and Recoveries,” by Kalesnik and coauthor Ari Polychronopoulos.

  • These numbers portend to illuminate society-threatening failures within the current immigration enforcement system.

  • Could the retirement of Rep. Tom Latham, a close friend, portend the exit of Speaker John Boehner as well?

  • Dissonant music that might otherwise be found in a Kubrick film portend to the worst.

  • But a small, important minority of these social-media clues portend real pain, struggle, even malice and disaster.

  • A look at the most bizarre metrics used to portend the winner of the presidential election.

  • A lofty birth or a large fortune portend merit, and cause it to be the sooner noticed.

  • He had acted as Ruth had bidden him; but he had no wish to be further involved in this affair, whatever it might portend.

  • She went on, wondering what this could portend, for since their chance meeting, she had not laid eyes on her neighbor.

  • If clouds breed high in the air, with white trains like locks of wool, they portend wind, probably rain.

  • What this obscure threat might portend, I could not see, but it chimed in with the delirious cruelty of the dead sergeant.