英语释义

• foreshadow or presage

• an indication of the approach of something or someone

片语

preannounce预告；事先宣布

Merrow Harbinger先兆美洛

Harbinger Down天魔异种

Flamekin Harbinger先兆炎身

Elvish Harbinger先兆妖精

Drone Harbinger兵蜂航母

precursor先驱，前导；（尤指经新陈代谢形成另一种物质的）前体，前质；前兆

Black Harbinger黑暗预言者

Rot Harbinger腐烂先驱者

forerunner先驱；先驱者；预兆

Faerie Harbinger先兆仙灵

harbinger literature先锋文学

forerun预示；预告；走在……之前

英汉例句

• the moment of trembling pathos when we bid goodbye to unhelpful ideas about ourselves and accept our limits may be the harbinger of more fruitful personal activity yet to come.

  当我们想放弃毫无裨益的观点，并接受我们的限界而有些感伤的时候，或许也是更加丰富的个人活力即将到来的预兆。

• the town believed we were cursed, the fire a harbinger of our birth.

  镇上的人认为我们是被诅咒的，大火是我们出生的预兆。

• gm’s demise should not be read as a harbinger of doom for the car industry.

  通用的破产也不应该被认为是汽车行业衰败的前兆。

• however, temporary help services, seen as a harbinger of permanent hiring, probably rebounded after falling in july for the first time since last september.

  然而，被视作永久性雇佣前兆的临时性援助劳务，或在7月份下跌后出现去年9月以来的首次回升。

• that blunt text message may be a harbinger of things to come.

  那则直率的短消息可能是未来事物的一个预兆。

• climatological cassandras are becoming increasingly apprehensive, for the weather aberrations they are studying may be the harbinger of another ice age.

  气候预言家们开始不安起来，天气的不寻常可能是另外一个冰川时代到来的前兆。

• the desire to treat terrible events as the harbinger of the end of civilization itself also has roots in another human trait: vanity.

  人们喜欢把危害事件看作是人类文明的终结的预兆，这种渴望也扎根于人类的另外一个特征：自负。

• he became a member of the european parliament in 1979 when that body was just a talking shop, seeing it as a harbinger of bigger things to come.

  1979年成为了欧洲议会的一员，那会儿这个组织还只是个耍耍嘴皮子的地方，他们将他的加入视为天降大任的一个预兆。

• for this reason, plato has often been cast as a kind of harbinger of the modern totalitarian state.

  因此柏拉图,常被视为是现在,极权主义国家的先驱。

• the etymology of the word harbinger is tied up in that 「forerunner」 meaning.

  harbinger这个词的来源和「先行者」是联系在一起的。

• it may therefore matter less as a harbinger of how future elections will be run than as an indicator of how mr brown will fight this one.

  因此，重要的不是这个作为预兆的改革告诉我们将来的选举将按什么规则运行，而是意味着布朗将怎样打赢这次选举。

• when the word harbinger arose in english more than 800 years ago it had already passed through french and was applied to the people who gave shelter.

  超过800年前，当harbinger这个词出现在英语里时，已经在法语里使用过，用于指提供庇护所的人。

• yet, each is just a harbinger of what's to come this year, as data of all sorts is assembled instantly by compelling applications.

  而这每一个示例都只是今年的趋势的一个预兆，所有类别的数据都会被应用程序即时组装在一起。

• ereaders are the key near-term trend, griffey said, citing the ongoing price war between barnes &noble, amazon, and others as a harbinger of very low prices.

  电子阅读器是近期趋势的核心，griffey说。他提及了barnes&noble、亚马逊以及其他低价先驱者的价格战。

• here, we have the babinski sign as a harbinger of things to come.

  在此，我们把巴宾斯奇迹象当作将要发生事情的预兆。

• philip falcone, a billionaire hedge-fund manager who runs harbinger capital partners, borrowed $113m from his fund to pay his 2008 taxes (the money was repaid in 2010).

  菲利普法尔科是掌管先驱资本的身家上亿的对沖基金经理，他从所掌管的基金借了1亿1千3百万美金来付2008年的个人的税收（他于2010年偿还了这笔借款）。

• under the circumstances, that was not a harbinger of inflation but a welcome tonic for european exports—especially german ones.

  在这种情况下，这不是一个通话膨胀的预兆而是刺激了欧洲的出口，尤其是德国。

• lower capital spending, they fear, could be a harbinger of slower productivity growth.

  更低的资本支出可能是更低的生产率增长的前兆，他们对此深表忧虑。

• in itself, this was just an example of the big unfriendly giant flexing its muscles, but it could be a harbinger of things to come.

  例子本身只是说明这位不友善的巨人是如何展示他的肌肉的，但它也许可以被看作一个预兆。

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antecedent先前的；（语法）先行的