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

• AIDS is one of the dystopian harbingers of the global villages-Susan Sontag.
  爱滋病是地球村反面乌托邦式的先驱-苏珊·桑塔格。
• 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。
• 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。
• A deep and rich cultural scene and a vast, broad geographical face are often reliable harbingers of one tasty aspect of a country's tourist allure: cuisine.
  深厚丰富的文化景观和博大广阔的地理风貌往往预示着一个国家的旅游业中拥有颇具吸引力的一面：美食。
• 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。
• What the harbingers of new culture faced was not how to take or reject the traditional culture, but criticize thoroughly and replace it with new culture.
  对于提倡新文化的先驱者来说，存在的不是对传统文化的选择取舍的矛盾，而是批判的彻底性和如何用新文化取代旧文化的问题。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。