augury

英 [ˈɔːɡjʊri]

美 [ˈɔːɡjʊri]

n.  预兆; 征兆

复数：auguries　

GRE

BNC.43603 / COCA.34266

牛津词典

noun

• 预兆；征兆
  a sign of what will happen in the future

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT 前兆；预兆；征兆
  Anauguryis a sign of what will happen in the future.
  1. The auguries of death are fast gathering round his head.
     死亡凶兆迅速地在他脑海中盘旋。

英英释义

noun

• an event that is experienced as indicating important things to come
  1. he hoped it was an augury
  2. it was a sign from God
  Synonym:signforetokenpreindication

双语例句

• Later, many experts have proved that these tortoise shells and bones with inscriptions were used as instruments for augury in the Shang Dynasty and have a history of more than three thousand years.
  后来经过许多学者专家考证研究，这些写有文字的龟甲和兽骨，其实是三千多年前的商代用来占卜的工具。
• But compared with the whole study of the inscriptions on bone, the augury with the inscriptions on bones is still very weak.
  但对整个甲骨学研究来说，甲骨占卜研究仍是一个较薄弱的环节。
• It's one of the important forms of foreshadowing for prediction, dreamland, natural calamities, augury, etc.
  其中预言、梦境、灾异、卜筮等都是伏笔艺术的重要表现形式。
• This thesis is a study on the behavior and psychology of augury scholars during the Song Dynasty.
  本文主要对宋代占卜风气中士人的行为与心态进行研究。
• It is a mutation form of the augury ballad. It has a lot of its own characteristics.
  它具有许多自己的特点，自成格局，是唐代谶谣最具特色的部分。
• The auguries of death are fast gathering round his head.
  死亡凶兆迅速地在他脑海中盘旋。
• The customs can be roughly divided into five kinds: marriage and love, fete, augury, agricultural activities and others.
  把《诗经》中的风俗分为婚恋、祭祀、占卜、农事和其他，一共五个大类。
• Though the augury of the poem is a kind of form of the augury ballad, it had obvious differences from the two other kinds of forms of augury ballad.
  诗谶虽然也是谶谣的一种形式，但它和前面两种形式的谶谣具有明显区别，是谶谣的一个变种形式。
• The Shang practiced augury with animal bones very early.
  商族很早就有用兽骨进行占卜的习俗。
• His remarkable recovery defied all medical augury.
  他极好的康复状况推翻了所有的医学预测。