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📰 外刊例句
Today those ominous predictions look misplaced. 今天,这些不祥的预测看起来是错的。
—— 《经济学人》
—— 《纽约时报》
📖 基本释义
[adjective] giving the worrying impression that something bad is going to happen; threateningly inauspicious
[形容词] 给人一种不好的事情即将发生的令人担忧的印象的;凶兆的
💡 深入解读
Ominous 是一个小站(微信公众号:田间小站)先后在好书推荐 | 一本“超炸”的外刊单词精研小书和好书推荐 | 一本让你寒假弯道超车的单词书中先后提到过的单词。该词源自拉丁语omen(对不祥或危险事情的强烈预感),16世纪80年代经拉丁语ominosus(充满不祥预感的)进入英语后,主要也是用来表示“不祥的、恶兆的、凶兆的、不吉利的”,通常给人一种灾难或邪恶的事情即将发生的印象,令人担忧或惊慌,
比如:
不祥的乌云
ominous dark clouds
There was an ominous silence when I asked whether my contract was going to be renewed.当我询问我的合同是否将续签时,回答我的是不祥的沉默。
📚 名著用例
George and Harry both spun around. Dolores Umbridge was standing in the doorway wrapped in a green tweed cloak that greatly enhanced her resemblance to a giant toad, and smiling in the horribly sickly, ominous way that Harry had come to associate with imminent misery. 乔治和哈利一齐转过身去。多洛雷斯·乌姆里奇站在门口,身上裹着一件绿花呢斗篷,这让她看起来更像一只巨大的癞蛤蟆。她脸上挂着那种令人作呕的、不祥的可怕笑容,哈利已经习惯把它与即将到来的痛苦联系在一起了。
— 出自《英国作家J·K·罗琳的奇幻小说《哈利·波特》系列的第五本《哈利·波特与凤凰社》( Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix )。》
🔍 同近义词
- inauspicious: not conducive to success; unpromising
- portentous: of or like a portent; of momentous significance
- unpropitious: (of a circumstance) not giving or indicating a good chance of success; unfavourable

