portent 的定义
- an indication or omen of something about to happen, especially something momentous.
- threatening or disquieting significance: an occurrence of dire portent.
- a prodigy or marvel.
portent 近义词
indication, forewarning
miracle
更多portent例句
- Amateur prognosticators, freelance seers, searchers for signs and pursuers of portents may regard Friday, which started the new year, with special scrutiny.
- If Cutler’s optimism is a portent of things to come, it may not be long before the ocean floor is dotted with sustainable datacenters to feed our ever-increasing reliance on our phones and the internet.
- At times, it seemed Leonard was awaiting a portent or an omen.
- Is this a passing phase or a portent of something more serious?
- In Moscow, the cynics are the ones opposing the regime while the idealists are the ones still working for it: another bad portent.
- As the great commentator, the Ramban, teaches, “everything that happened to the Patriarchs is a portent for the children.”
- And the use of reverberating metallic sound effects to imbue every other moment with sinister portent gets tedious after awhile.
- It sounds ominously amid the stillness, like the portent of some calamity, horrible and sudden.
- Should purchases and rumoured purchases of land prove to be a portent, Dafydd had all to lose and nothing to gain by change.
- The silence without was only portent of the storm so soon to burst.
- It was because he was a failure in literature that he became a portent in English history.
- There was some hidden portent in her tone which Jarvis failed to divine.