英语释义

• presaging ill-fortune;

  "ill omens"

  "ill predictions"

  "my words with inauspicious thunderings shook heaven"- P.B.Shelley

  "a dead and ominous silence prevailed"

  "a by-election at a time highly unpropitious for the Government"

• threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments;

  "a baleful look"

  "forbidding thunderclouds"

  "his tone became menacing"

  "ominous rumblings of discontent"

  "sinister storm clouds"

  "a sinister smile"

  "his threatening behavior"

  "ugly black clouds"

  "the situation became ugly"

片语

Ominous Visitor第⑨章

ill(Ill)人名；(捷、匈)伊尔

Ominous Tales不祥传说被遗忘的小岛

ominous cry不吉利的叫声

ominous words不吉利的话

Ominous Woods不详树林

omin ominous不好的

premonitory先兆的，预兆的

Ominous Clouds天黑黑

Ominous Visis不吉祥的来客

Ominous omen预兆征兆

英汉例句

• and there are ominous reports that the sudanese government, in what would be ethnic cleansing, is inviting arab tribesmen from niger and chad to occupy the lands vacated by the refugees.

  此外，据一些预兆的报告称，苏丹政府正从尼日尔与乍得请来一些部落军来占据由难民空出的土地——苏丹政府称之为「种族清理」。

• they are revealing, in ominous ways, what it means to live in a closely interdependent and interconnected world.

  危机以不祥的方式揭示生活在一个密切相互依赖和相互联系的世界中意味着什么。

• hamas may be quiescent in the west bank now, but some of its militants there have given ominous interviews warning that they have lots of men and lots of guns.

  现在哈马斯也许对西岸保持沉默，但他们中的一些激进分子公开了一段不祥的访谈，警告道他们拥有很多人和很多枪。

• the targeting of young women in particular is highlighted as one of the 「most ominous potential developments of the epidemic’s growth「.

  报告尤其强调以青年女性为目标是“烟草流行加剧最为不祥的潜在事态发展」之一。

• yet mr obama badly needs to show that he can still lead on domestic policy. he should start by cajoling congress into an agreement to tackle america’s ominous fiscal arithmetic.

  奥巴马先生尚急需证明他还是有能力引领国内政策导向的，我想他应该从诱使国会同意解决美国那会带有不祥之兆的财政预算做起。

• the rise in the use of tobacco products among girls and young females is one of the most ominous developments of the global tobacco epidemic.

  女孩和青年女性中使用烟草制品的人数增多，是全球烟草流行最为不祥的一种新情况。

• that is an even more ominous possibility.

  这是一种更加不祥的可能性。

• this silence, this rejection of dialogue, of all forms of clinching, is our 」terror", ominous and threatening as it should be.

  这种沉默，这种对话的拒绝，这种对一切扭抱形式的拒绝，乃是我们的「恐怖」，纵然它应当是不祥的，是危险的。

• the largest and most ominous challenge facing the company, though, comes from its own silicon valley backyard.

  这家公司面临的最大和最不祥的调整就是来自其后院-----硅谷。

• many of these refugees embark on a perilous journey that leads to an even more ominous reality in the refugee camps of puntland and somaliland.

  他们中的许多人踏上了一条危险之旅，他们进入了彭特兰和索马里兰的难民营，等待他们的是更为不祥的现实。

• all this seems to make sense, and after speaking to a range of people i’ve seen little to support the notion of confucius institutes as ominous propaganda.

  这些看起来都说得通，和一圈人说过话以后我已经很难看到支持那些认为孔子学院是不吉利的宣传工具的人的理由了。

• a young woman, for example, related how her father had had an ominous dream, but nonetheless went into the jungle the next day and was killed.

  例如，一名年轻女子就讲述了她的父亲是如何做了一个不祥的梦，但却还是去了树林，结果第二天就遇害身亡的事。

• the setback is an ominous sign for an economy already facing a severe test in 2011, as the government’s fiscal retrenchment moves from plans in whitehall to reality on the ground.

  随着政府的财政削减计划从白厅的草案到一项项开始落实，这次的受挫对于在2011年已经面临严峻考验的英国经济体来说是不祥之兆。

• this is an ominous trend. it is historically unprecedented, and it is certain to continue.

  这是一个不祥的趋势，历史上从未有过，它显然将持续下去。

• we know the statistics and the ominous trends that now encircle the globe.

  对于这些数据和当下笼罩全球的不祥趋势，我们都了然于心。

• in every state, the 55-to-64 age group has a higher rate of obesity than people over 65, an ominous sign for medicare.

  在每一个州里，55岁到64岁年龄组的人比超过65岁的人有更高的肥胖率，是医疗保险制度的一个不祥的预兆。

相似词

menacing威胁（menace的ing形式）；恐吓

sinister阴险的；兇兆的；灾难性的；左边的

unfavorable不宜的；令人不快的；不顺利的

threatening威胁；恐吓；迫近（threaten的ing形式）

black黑色的；黑人的；邪恶的

significant象征；有意义的事物

alarming使惊恐（alarm的ing形式）

unfavorable不宜的；令人不快的；不顺利的

forbidding（外表）冷峻的，令人生畏的；令人厌恶的；险恶的

threatening威胁；恐吓；迫近（threaten的ing形式）

fated命中注定的，宿命的；受命运支配的

sinister阴险的；兇兆的；灾难性的；左边的

相反词

propitious适合的；吉利的；顺利的