portent [ˈpɔ:rtent]

例句:

• I hope this is a portent for the rest of the year.
  我希望这对今年余下的时间是个兆头。
  
• The savage civil war there could be a portent of what's to come in the rest of the region.
  那里发生的野蛮内战可能预示这一地区其他地方将会发生什么。
  
• I see it as a portent of things to come.
  我把它看作是将要到来的事物的前兆.
  
• But their cartoonish one-dimensionality cancels out any real portent.
  来自NEWYORKER
• Building low, I noticed; portent of a rainy summer.
  来自THETIMES
• He will hear the magic rap of the willow wand, portent of death.
  来自J. Uglow