harbingers

英 [ˈhɑːbɪndʒəz]

美 [ˈhɑrbɪŋərz]

n.  (常指坏的)预兆，兆头
harbinger的第三人称单数和复数

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

• 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。
• The conceptual framework of this model provides a theoretical basis for how novel therapies can be designed to selectively target only the T cells that are harbingers of autoimmunity.
  这一理论模式提供了如何在医学实践中选择性靶向抑制那些可以导致自身免疫病的T细胞的新型诊疗途径的理论基础。
• 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。
• And beware all who descend from those skies, for they are the harbingers of death and destruction.
  同时要提防从那些天空下来的所有东西，因为那是死亡和毁灭的先兆。
• These are not the obvious harbingers of a two-state solution.
  这些都不是两国方案有望实现的明显预兆。
• I suppose both grades were harbingers, since as President I did a good job with the nations economy and a poor job with my personal economic situation, at least until I left the White House.
  我想这两个成绩是一种预兆，因为作为总统，我在国家经济方面干得卓有成效，但在个人经济状况上却相当糟糕，至少在我离开白宫之前是这么回事。
• On the Camp Style and Narrative Perspectives of Susan Sontag; AIDS is one of the dystopian harbingers of the global village ( Susan Sontag)
  苏珊桑塔格的女性坎普与叙事技巧爱滋病是地球村反面乌托邦式的先驱（苏珊桑塔格）
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。