portend 的定义
- to indicate in advance; to foreshadow or presage, as an omen does: The street incident may portend a general uprising.
- to signify; mean.
portend 近义词
foreshadow, indicate
更多portend例句
- 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.