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单词 propitious
释义
propitious
adjective
formal
uk
/prəˈpɪʃ.əs/us
/prəˈpɪʃ.əs/
likelytoresultinsuccess, orshowingsignsofsuccess:
吉祥的，吉利的
With theeconomyinrecession, it was not a propitioustimetostartacompany.经济正处于萧条时期，这可不是开公司的好时候。
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  • embryo
  • fertile
  • latent
  • making
  • not be beyond the wit of man/someoneidiom
  • potential
  • potentiality
  • prospect
  • prospective
  • realizable
  • retrievable
  • room
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propitiously
(Definition ofpropitiousfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

propitious| American Dictionary

propitious
adjective
us
/prəˈpɪʃ·əs/
likelytoresultinsuccess, orshowingsignsofsuccess:
Witheconomicconditionssouncertain, hefeltit was not a propitioustimeto make abiginvestment.
(Definition ofpropitiousfrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofpropitious

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Within thispropitiouscontext, one would expect social and cultural research on agriculture and farmers to be a 'natural' and that it should thrive unimpeded.
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Not all collectivized environments are equallypropitiousfor informal interactions.
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On the evidence of this volume the fourteenth century was indeed not apropitiousperiod for would-be tyrants.
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Once again, the record industry has taken advantage of apropitioussituation.
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We strongly believe that advances in all these domains make this apropitioustime to review and further develop these bridges.
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These conditions would not have beenpropitiousfor the vigorous pursuit of a new political agenda.
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The return of divided government in 1997 created a climatepropitiousfor judicial autonomy.
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The stirring-fry and dispersing mechanism ispropitiousto the cooking of soup.
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Thus, technology has a more varied and possibly lesspropitiousshort-run effect in a growth model in which the quality-of-life measure is more broadly defined.
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Interestingly, me thinks had already long beenpropitiousto the zero complementizer, and this even when the zero complementizer was extremely rare elsewhere.
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The suprasegmental criterion is appreciably morepropitiousto left-branching than the other two phonological ones.
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Thus, in settingspropitiousfor interaction, physical proximity was hardly ever transformed into concrete forms of cooperation between the workers.
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In this relationship, architecture and topography establish the conditions that arepropitiousto the meaning of the rite.
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Finally, it suggests that prevention should focus on society-wide efforts to encourage women to delay childbirth until a morepropitiouspoint in the life course.
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The beginning of the 1990s proved to be a verypropitiousmoment for such an initiative.
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