| 单词 | harbinger |
| 释义 | harbinger noun[C] literaryuk/ˈhɑː.bɪn.dʒər/us/ˈhɑːr.bɪn.dʒɚ/apersonor thing thatshowsthat something is going tohappensoon,especiallysomethingbad: （尤指坏事的）先兆，预兆a harbingerofdoom毁灭的先兆 Synonym herald People who make predictions
Examplesofharbingerharbinger Their arrival increased the pressure on game and was theharbingerof permanent settlement with permanent structures in the landscape. From theCambridge English Corpus Personal insight and meaning are the harbingers of shared and public meaning. From theCambridge English Corpus Performance-based music education becomes theharbingerof intellectual passivity and conservatism. From theCambridge English Corpus While conjunctural, it was aharbingerof later events. From theCambridge English Corpus There are signs, harbingers perhaps, of a coming trend of greater concern for the comparative among historians of science and technology. From theCambridge English Corpus What then of textile production, the seemingharbingerof industrial development? From theCambridge English Corpus This new, much higher limit, turned out to be aharbingerof the gradual removal of capital stock limitations. From theCambridge English Corpus However, while 'enlightenment ' may have been theharbingerof change, to characterize this change as leading to ' secularization ' would be too simplistic. From theCambridge English Corpus This sample may provide aharbingerof how contemporary children will be affected by the 1996 welfare reform law. From theCambridge English Corpus Communists, on the other hand, regarded the misery and degradation of the unemployed as welcome harbingers of a new social order. From theCambridge English Corpus We arrive at where we began : matter is theharbingerof evil (cf. 2 above). From theCambridge English Corpus Moreover, discontinuity of consciousness undermines self-confidence at the deepest level; to an elderly person, a fit may seem aharbingerof death. From theCambridge English Corpus A still more disruptive factor lies with the warming that is already overtaking the oceans-a probableharbingerof the greenhouse effect. From theCambridge English Corpus The petite phrase, by turns mystery woman, confidante and national anthem - even, finally, aharbingerof doom - resists all such attempts at meaning-making. From theCambridge English Corpus Can armies be agents of conflict resolution, harbingers of peace on earth? From theCambridge English Corpus These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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