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成为…的前兆,预知,给与…的警告

资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Portend \Por*tend"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Portended}; p. pr. &
   vb. n. {Portending}.] [L. portendre, portentum, to foretell,
   to predict, to impend, from an old preposition used in comp.
   + tendere to stretch. See {Position}, {Tend}.]
   1. To indicate (events, misfortunes, etc.) as in future; to
      foreshow; to foretoken; to bode; -- now used esp. of
      unpropitious signs. --Bacon.

            Many signs portended a dark and stormy day.
                                                  --Macaulay.

   2. To stretch out before. [R.] ``Doomed to feel the great
      Idomeneus' portended steel.'' --Pope.

   Syn: To foreshow; foretoken; betoken; forebode; augur;
        presage; foreshadow; threaten.

资料来源 : WordNet®

portend
     v : indicate by signs; "These signs bode bad news" [syn: {bode},
          {auspicate}, {prognosticate}, {omen}, {presage}, {betoken},
          {foreshadow}, {augur}, {foretell}, {prefigure}, {forecast},
          {predict}]