portend

英语

词源

借自拉丁语 portendere (“预测，预知”)，源自por- (“向前”) + tendere (“伸展”)，tendo的现在主动不定式。

发音

• (英国) 国际音标^(帮助)：/pɔːˈtɛnd/

  • （英国）音频

    （文档）

• (美国) 国际音标^(帮助)：/pɔɹˈtɛnd/
• 韵部：-ɛnd

动词

portend (第三人称单数简单现在时 portends，现在分词 portending，一般过去时及过去分词 portended)

1. (及物) 预示，预兆
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2. (及物) 意味着，表示

   Let it be known that the Rapture portends the End of Days.

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   • 2012 6月 26, Genevieve Koski, “Music: Reviews: Justin Bieber: Believe”, 出自 The A.V. Club‎^[1]，于6 August 2020归档自原页面:

     When the staccato, Neptunes-ian single “Boyfriend” was released in March, musical prognosticators were quick to peg the album it portended, Believe, as Justin Bieber’s Justified, a grown-and-sexy, R&B-centric departure that evolved millennial teenybopper Justin Timberlake into one of the unifying pop-music figures of the aughts.

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近义词

• foreshadow
• presage

相关词汇

• portent
• portentive
• portentous

参见

• harbinger

异序词

• dropnet, protend