inauspicious
英 [ɪnɔː'spɪʃəs]
美[,ɪnɔ'spɪʃəs]
- adj. 不祥的；不吉的，恶运的
英英释意
- 1. not auspicious; boding ill
- 2. contrary to your interests or welfare;
- "adverse circumstances"
- "made a place for themselves under the most untoward conditions"
- 3. 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"
双语例句
- 1. The meeting got off to an inauspicious start when he was late.
- 他迟到了，会议一开始就不顺利。
来自柯林斯例句
- 2. It is inauspicious to walk under a ladder.
- 从梯子下走过是不吉利的.
来自辞典例句
- 3. The likeness is indeed true, but it is a dull, dead , unfeeling, inauspicious likeness.
- 真的,它确实很象, 但却是一种呆滞死板, 暮气沉沉, 毫无情感的相似.
来自辞典例句
- 4. It was an inauspicious start, to say the least.
- 这就是联邦调查局不太显赫的开端.
来自互联网
- 5. It is a superstitious tradition that corvine is inauspicious.
- 传说老鸹是种不吉利的鸟,其实那只是大家的一种迷信.
来自互联网