英语
词源
借自拉丁语 portendere (“预测,预知”),源自por- (“向前”) + tendere (“伸展”),tendo的现在主动不定式。
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portend(第三人称单数简单现在时 portends,现在分词 portending,一般过去时及过去分词 portended)
- (及物) 预示,预兆
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- (及物) 意味着,表示
- Let it be known that the Rapture portends the End of Days.
- (请为本使用例添加中文翻译)
- 2012年6月26日,Genevieve Koski,“Music: Reviews: Justin Bieber: Believe”,出自 The A.V. Club[1], archived from the original on 6 August 2020:
- When the staccato, Neptunes-ian single “Boyfriend” was released in March, musical prognosticators were quick to peg the album it portended, Believe, as Justin Bieber’s Justified, a grown-and-sexy, R&B-centric departure that evolved millennial teenybopper Justin Timberlake into one of the unifying pop-music figures of the aughts.
- (请为本引文添加中文翻译)
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相关词汇
- portent
- portentive
- portentous
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异序词
- dropnet, protend