harbingers

英 [ˈhɑːbɪndʒəz]

美 [ˈhɑrbɪŋərz]

n.  (常指坏的)预兆，兆头
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柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT （尤指不祥的）先兆，预兆
  Something that is aharbinger ofsomething else, especially something bad, is a sign that it is going to happen.
  1. The November air stung my cheeks, a harbinger of winter.
     11月的空气刺痛了我的脸颊，预示着冬天就要来临。

双语例句

• The latest figures are seen by many to be harbingers of financial doom.
  许多人认为最新的数据是财政恶运的预兆。
• Four shrines, severed by the tears of a goddess and harbingers of mother angle.
  在四座神殿供上女神之泪，母天使就会降临。
• Investors and first-time buyers, the traditional harbingers of a housing rebound, are out in force here, competing for bargain-price foreclosures.
  对投资者和初次购买者来说，传统的房屋反弹预兆已经失效，在交易价中争夺丧失抵押赎回权。
• In our study of more than 200 years of banking crises we find rapid leverage build-up and sharp asset price inflation are often harbingers of financial crisis that politicians discount or ignore.
  我们在研究200多年来的银行业危机时发现，杠杆率迅速上升和资产价格急剧上涨，往往是金融危机的前兆，政治家对此不是低估就是忽视。
• As canaries in coal mines go, mining shares tend to be reliable harbingers of a sell-off in industrial commodities in a downturn.
  在煤矿里用金丝雀来预警的时代已经过去，矿业股正成为经济下滑时工业用大宗商品是否会遭抛售的可靠预兆。
• All the methods, techniques, technologies, and systems are harbingers and at the same time hallmarks of the digital enterprise era that is just beginning to dawn.
  所有的方法、技巧、技术和系统都预兆着，同时标志着，数字化企业时代的黎明正在到来。
• Therefore say up from this angle, Morris is one of the important harbingers of the modern design.
  因此，从这个角度上说，莫里斯是现代设计的重要先驱者之一。
• I've explained in previous articles in this series that cyclomatic complexity tends to be one of the harbingers of sticky code.
  我在本系列前面的文章中已经解释了圈复杂性，它是令人讨厌的代码的一种先兆。
• Bluebirds, he would say, are harbingers of hope and triumph, renowned for family loyalty.
  他常常说，蓝鸟是希望和胜利的前兆，以对家庭的忠诚而出名。
• This all is very interesting because astrologers know eclipses are the harbingers of massive change, and the shifts they bring are usually sudden and unexpected.
  这是非常有趣的，应为占星家都知道星蚀预示翻天覆地的变化，而且它带来的这些改变通常是猝不及防的，出乎意料的。