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词源
augur + -y,或源自中古英语 augurie,源自古法语 augurie,源自拉丁语 augurium。
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- 根据动物外貌或行为所作的占卜。
- (引申) 征兆,预兆。
- 1850, James Russell Lowell, The Works of the Late Edgar Allan Poe/Volume 1/Edgar A. Poe
- In Wordsworth's first preludings there is but a dim foreboding of the creator of an era. From Southey's early poems, a safer augury might have been drawn.
- 1859, George Meredith, The Ordeal of Richard Feverel, Chapter 15:
- No augury could be hopefuller. The Fates must indeed be hard, the Ordeal severe, the Destiny dark, that could destroy so bright a Spring!
- 1850, James Russell Lowell, The Works of the Late Edgar Allan Poe/Volume 1/Edgar A. Poe
- 作为重要事物预兆的事件。
- 1928,Lawrence R. Bourne,章号2,出自 Well Tackled![1]:
- Evidently he did not mean to be a mere figurehead, but to carry on the old tradition of Wilsthorpe's; and that was considered to be a good thing in itself and an augury for future prosperity.
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