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

• It has a name of ill omen, and ill omens have become my life.
  它有一个倒霉的名字，倒霉已经变成我的生命。
• The omens are mixed at best.
  目前的种种兆头至多算是好坏掺半。
• 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。
• It was an omen among omens, pointing a path for him to tread.
  这是预兆中的预兆，指引着他走一条路。
• Such omens betide no good.
  这种征兆预示情况不妙。
• But for me all omens are favourable if I will, for, whatever the issue may be, it is in my power to get benefit therefrom.
  但是对于我本身来说，如果我想，所有的预兆都是对我好的，因为不管我失去了什么，我还是可以自己觉得从中获得益处。
• All these were omens of avalanches.
  以上几点都是雪崩的前兆。
• 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 for the game are still not propitious.
  这场比赛仍不被看好。
• But the omens are bleak.
  但目前的兆头并不好。