augury

英語[编辑]

augury (可數和不可數, 複數 auguries)

根據動物外貌或行為所作的占卜。
(引申) 征兆，預兆。
- 1850, James Russell Lowell, The Works of the Late Edgar Allan Poe/Volume 1/Edgar A. Poe
  In Wordsworth's first preludings there is but a dim foreboding of the creator of an era. From Southey's early poems, a safer augury might have been drawn.
- 1859, George Meredith, The Ordeal of Richard Feverel, Chapter 15:
  No augury could be hopefuller. The Fates must indeed be hard, the Ordeal severe, the Destiny dark, that could destroy so bright a Spring!
作為重要事物預兆的事件。
- 1928, Lawrence R. Bourne, 章號 2, 出自 Well Tackled!‎^[1]:
  Evidently he did not mean to be a mere figurehead, but to carry on the old tradition of Wilsthorpe's; and that was considered to be a good thing in itself and an augury for future prosperity.
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