Raven on a wire. A gloomy portent, precariously perched.

电线上乌鸦 似不祥之兆 不安地栖息在上。

Since humans have been human we've looked to the skies for portents of the future.

自从人类成长为人类以来，我们一直在仰望天空，寻找有关未来征兆。

The flamboyance of his name was a portent of things to come.

他名字华丽预示着未来事情。

Fake images were denounced. (This eruption is in South America. Ignore and don't spread.) Talk of portents was firmly shot down.

假照片被。（“火山爆发发生在南美。忽略这，不要散播。”）关于灾难预兆言论被坚定地击破。

John looked puzzled, not quite understanding the portent of this cryptic saying.

约翰一脸疑惑， 不太明白这句神秘话语含义。

'The man who captures the girl will become hegemon'; is this not a portent?

“擒得女孩者为霸”；这难道不是一预兆吗？

Our daily landscape is thick with absurd messages and portents.

我们日常生活中充满荒谬信息和预兆。

When therefore the last portent came they heeded it little.

因此, 当最后预兆到来时, 他们很少注意它。

Noah, Martha says, promised the dove to pay him if he would bring a tangible portent.

玛莎说，诺亚向鸽子保证， 如果他带来有形预兆， 他会付钱给他。

Hoover's inauguration took place on a cold and rainy day, but all the portents were otherwise auspicious.

胡职典礼在一寒冷多雨日子举行，但所有预兆都是吉祥。

Everything seemed dreary: the portents before the birth of Cyrus—Jewish antiquities—oh dear!

一切似乎都很沉闷：居鲁士出生前预兆——犹太古物——哦，天哪！

Both portent and portentous come from the Latin noun portentum, meaning " omen or sign" .

预兆和预兆都来自拉丁语名词portentum，意思是“预兆或迹象” 。

" Would anyone like me to help them interpret the shadowy portents within their Orb? " she murmured over the clinking of her bangles.

“有人愿意要我帮助解释一下他们水晶球里影影绰绰出现东西吗? ”她走动着，手镯发出细碎响声。

In another direction, pale Roman candles shot up singly through the trees, and a fire-haired rocket swept the horizon like a portent.

在另一方向， 淡淡罗马烛光在树林间单独升起，一架火发火箭像一预兆一样掠过地平线。

Aye, Oin has read the portents, and the portents say it is time.

对，欧音读先兆，先兆说时候到。

Later on, they realized that it was a portent of the future decline of the country and that omens were already manifesting themselves.

后来他们意识到，这是国家未来衰落预兆，预兆已经显现。

This meant that he was collecting bizarre religious portents to help him invalidate Caesar's legislation after their year was over.

意思是他在收集异样宗教凶兆，帮他在执政官任期结束后证明凯撒立法是无效。

Portents are also at the heart of the adjective portentous, which describes things forewarning future events - usually events of the bad luck variety.

预兆也是形容词portentous核心，它描述对未来事件预警——通常是厄运类事件。

Trump's behavior that night was an interesting little portent, wasn't it?

特朗普那天晚上行为是一有趣小预兆，不是吗？

He may have been singing about the ominous portent of being born during an unfavorable astrological alignment, but the classic tune became a standard of the blues.

他可能唱是在不利星象排列中出生不祥预兆，但经典曲调成为布鲁斯标准。