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单词 portend
释义
portend
verb[T]
formal
uk
/pɔːˈtend/us
/pɔːrˈtend/
to be asignthat somethingbadislikelytohappenin thefuture:
预示，预兆，预告（坏事）
It was adeeplysuperstitiouscountry, whereearthquakeswerecommonlybelievedto portend the end ofdynasties.这是一个很迷信的国家，地震被普遍认为预示着王朝的终结。
Synonyms
augurformal
betokenold use
bodeformal
foreshadowformal
prefigureformal
presageformal
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(Definition ofportendfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

portend| American Dictionary

portend
verb[T]
fml
us
/pɔrˈtend,poʊr-/
to be asignthat something islikelytohappenin thefuture:
It was amajorscandalwhosefullexposureportended the end of apopularpresidentialreign.
(Definition ofportendfrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofportend

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It is also not clear what these elevations in cortisol mightportendfor these children's futures.
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However, its moral passions and indifference to political calculations alsoportendconflict with partisan insurgents, who inevitably rank movement objectives below electoral imperatives.
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Segmental morphology is also more likely toportendcomplications and need for active intervention and therapy.
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However, setbacks of these kinds tend to cluster in the first 6 to 12 months after surgery and do not necessarilyportenda bad outcome.
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Nevertheless, demographic trendsportendchange for the system.
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And what does itportendfor the way ethics gets formulated in contemporary continental thought?
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It is important to capture in some detail the full import of this failure and the tragedy it portended.
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The transubstantiation is startling in its ambition and in the possibility for the fundamental resetting of the social hierarchy that it portends.
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Having a past shared history does not necessarilyportenda common fate for us far into the future.
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And that does notportendwell for the practicality of a hyperreal wager.
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In this way, tolerance is 'an index of this very capacity for mixing and of the perceived threat to a social norm that it portends' (p. 73).
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It is certainly not my belief that there is any portending difficulty in this matter, either constitutionally or voluntarily.
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This proposal as has been pointed out, portends the curtailment of education services on grounds of false economy.
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We may have very different views about what people's sympathies or political viewsportend.
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All that portends a continuing outgoing of these methods of civil defence.
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