Portend

(v. t.) To indicate (events, misfortunes, etc.) as in future; to foreshow; to foretoken; to bode; -- now used esp. of unpropitious signs.

(v. t.) To stretch out before.

约翰娜编辑

• What does this unwonted excitement about such an every-day occurrence as a return from market portend? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• What does this portend? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• Small black clouds thus appearing in a clear sky, in hot climates portend storms, and warn seamen to hand their sails. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
• What do these sounds portend? 玛丽·雪莱. 弗兰肯斯坦.
• It portended that there was one stone face too many, up at the chateau. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
• India had endured many changes of rulers before, but never the sort of changes in her ways that these things portended. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• But even for an onlooker in a neutral country, the significance of every move made, of every advance here and retreat there, lies in what it portends. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• Comets, meteors, an d eclipses were considered as omens portending pestilence, national disaster, or the fate of kings. 李贝. 西洋科学史.

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