portent是英語名詞，英式發音為[ˈpɔːtent]，美式發音為[ˈpɔːrtent]，核心釋義為重大事件的預兆或異常現象，常指代負面預示。該詞屬於正式用語，多與介詞"of"連用表示徵兆，常見搭配包括portent signal（前兆信號）、malfunction portent（故障徵兆）等專業術語。其詞義涵蓋三方面：災難性事件的預警、凶兆的象徵意義以及異常事物本身。
該詞在語言學範疇具有近義詞augury、omen、forewarning，相關形容詞形式為portentous（預示性的）。例句"signs full of portent"體現其典型用法場景。
詞源可追溯至1560年代的古法語portente，原始詞根為拉丁語portentum，意為"標誌、預兆"，由動詞portendere（預示）的過去分詞演變而來。該詞在17-18世紀仍保留"向前伸展"的字面含義，詞義演變反映了從具體動作到抽象預兆的語義擴展。
基本介紹
- 外文名：portent
- 詞性：名詞
- 英式發音：[ˈpɔːtent]
- 美式發音：[ˈpɔːrtent]
單詞用法,短語搭配,雙語例句,
單詞用法
柯林斯英漢雙解大詞典
portent /ˈpɔːtɛnt/ ( portents )
1.N-COUNT A portent is something that indicates what is likely to happen in the future. 預兆; 徵兆 [正式][oft N 'of' n]
短語搭配
portent signal 前兆信號
a portent 預兆
malfunction portent 故障徵兆
Propitious Portent 瑞兆
evil portent 惡熊
stroke portent 中風先兆
Production portent 製作部
Verano portent 月光舞曲
雙語例句
- The savage civil war there could be a portent of what's to come in the rest of the region. 那裡的野蠻戰爭可能預示著該地區將要發生什麼事情。《柯林斯英漢雙解大詞典》
- Body has no falling flop of portent. 身體，毫無徵兆的倒下。
- I see it as a portent of thing to come. 我把它看作是將要到來的事物的前兆。
- The portent wound in corridors of shells. 貝殼的迴廊上那些帶著異兆的傷。
- Betoken: to be or give a sign or portent of. 預示：做或給出記號或預兆。
- But it is a miserable portent for the future. 但是這預示著美國不樂觀的未來。
- Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times. 現代舞者為我們的時代傳達了一個可怕的預兆
- There came a Saturday morning ugly with the portent of storm. 有一個星期六早上，天昏地暗，暴風雨將臨。
- But January 's rise in the claimant count is a worrying portent. 但是一月份申請人數的增加是一個令人擔憂的預兆。
- I have become like a portent to many, but you are my strong refuge. 許多人以我為怪。但你是我堅固的避難所。
- But did your reverence hear of the portent that was seen last night? 不過，閣下您聽說昨天夜裡人們看見的徵兆了嗎？
- So, could Hero be a portent of things to come or just another Jet Li film? 因此，可以將英雄的一個先兆東西來，或只是另。
- The priests think its destruction is a portent that the gods will soon return. 牧師們認為它的毀滅預示著神很快將會歸來。
- That hair comes off abruptly is trouble nature disease exempt from service portent. 頭髮突然脫落是患免役性疾病的徵兆。
- The sublime may be dangerous, but it is not inauspicious or a portent of good or evil. 這種升華可能危險，但並非不詳或者是善惡的徵兆。
- ET might be the important factor to cause vasoconstriction, resulting in the portent symptoms. ET可能是導致血管收縮，引起先兆症狀的重要因子。
- Thus, the full moon is not dangerous in itself but is instead a portent of the darkness to come. 因此，滿月本身並不危險，而是一個黑暗降臨的預兆。
- He feared this portent and tried to banish it from his mind, mollify it erase it-but it kept returning. 他害怕這個不祥的預兆，想方設法把它從腦子裡攆出去，平息它，消除它——但是它總是返回來。
- Third, and we believe that this is equal in portent to the actual discovery, there is the storehouse itself. 第三，我們相信和實際發現同樣重要的是，這個儲藏庫本身。
- And there will be more of this. In a terrible, terrible way this is a portent of things to come and a warning. 還有呢，更多可怕的還在後面，這只是個警告罷了。
- Behind the black portent of the new atomic age lies a hope which, seized upon with faith, can work our salvation. 後面的黑色預兆新的原子時代的希望所在，抓住與信仰，我們的救贖工作。
- So these changes are only a minor portent of what is likely to come, especially if we continue on our carbon - profligate pathway. 所以這些變化僅僅是將來氣候變化的前兆，尤其是在如果我們繼續肆意排放二氧化碳的情況下。
- Then the LORD said, Just as my servant Isaiah has gone stripped and barefoot for three years, as a sign and portent against Egypt and Cush. 耶和華說，我僕人以賽亞怎樣露身赤腳行走三年，作為關乎埃及和古實的豫兆奇蹟。
- Onset of illness and evoke factor, relation between miction and syocope, portent symptome of syocope and valsalva's test of electrocardiogram were analyzed. 分析發病時間與誘因，排尿與昏厥的關係，昏厥前徵兆、臨床症狀和心電圖乏氏試驗。
- We have thrown all the light we could acquire upon the portent , and would gladly, now that it has done its office, erase its deep print out of our own brain ; 關於這件怪事，我們所能掌握的情況已經全都披露了，既然這一任務已經完成，而長時間的思考已在我們的頭腦中印下了並非我們所願的清晰印象，我們倒很高興把這深深的印記抹掉。
