portend

portend[pɔ:'tend; pəu-]

• vt.
  • 预兆，前兆；为…的兆头：

    Her silence portends trouble.

    她沉默不语可不是好兆头。

  • 表示；意味着：

    Perhaps the present concern with the values of liberal arts education portends an intellectual anemia.

    现在关心大学文科教育的重要性也许意味着患了智力贫血症。

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• nickelled
• pratique
• desynonymizing
• realtors
• gill pouch
• Turpan
• nigger-brown
• achillestendon
• relieve guard
• convincingness
• cineplex
• slothfully
• preferential system
• Bolbitiaceae
• cost centres
• vacancy
• Lehman, Herbert Henry
• split one's vote
• fall to sth
• lexicographers
• electronic data-processing center
• beat oscillator
• curling dies
• polyanthus narcissus
• diaphototropic
• gross someone out
• Simple Simon
• explicators
• nondividing
• all-work
• natural death
• dig up the tomahawk
• pole-zero configuration
• sofas
• clamp down
• outstander
• recharge your batteries
• inchons
• shout blue murder
• novelise
• garden truck
• fishmongering
• sit on
• sodium ethylxanthate
• Sinfoniettas
• choirgirl
• not a penny the worse
• Sandy Hook
• cursiveness
• solmisating
• coyly
• pestoes
• edifying
• alphabetizations
• ammonium
• lark about (或 around)
• no offence (或 meant)
• bite the hand that feeds one
• philosopheresses
• urban renaissance
• Ephedrales
• metamathematicss
• Taejon
• be pax with
• dimnesses
• mole plough
• wazoo
• vernicle
• scripper
• TVC
• trestle
• be adherent to
• carve out one’s way
• isothermal treatment
• counterboring
• rainy-day
• stub
• franceses
• angelophany
• epimerases
• colicins
• scampishly
• working day
• reindict
• property trust
• fascess
• enduer
• restlessly
• choiceful
• etherialising
• decamethonium
• turn someone out
• so much so that
• returning officer
• on the safe side
• sour ... on
• overleaped或-leapt
• Tyroliennes
• bird hawk