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

电线上的乌鸦 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.

自从类成长为类以来，我们就一直在仰望天空，寻找有关未来的征兆。

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

他名字的华丽预示着未来的事情。

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

假照片被谴责了。（“火山爆发发生在南美。忽略这，不要散播。”）关于灾难预兆的言论被坚定地击破了。

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的含义。

'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.

我们的日常生活中充满了荒谬的信息和预兆。

When therefore the last portent came they heeded it little.

因此, 当最后的预兆到来时, 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， 如果他带来有形的预兆， 他就会付钱给他。

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

胡佛的就职典礼在一雨的日子举行，但所有预兆都是吉祥的。

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

一切似乎都很沉闷：居鲁士出生前的预兆——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.

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

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， 淡淡的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，欧音读了先兆，先兆说时候到了。

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，这是国家未来衰落的预兆，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的宗教凶兆，帮他在执政官任期结束后证明凯撒的立法是无效的。

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的核心，它描述了对未来事件的预警——通常是厄运类的事件。

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

特朗普那天晚上的行为是一有趣的小预兆，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.

他可能唱的是在不利的星象排列中出生的不祥预兆，但经典的曲调成为了布鲁斯的标准。