harbinger
英 [ˈhɑːbɪndʒə(r)]
美 [ˈhɑːrbɪndʒər]
n. (常指坏的)预兆，兆头
vt. 预告; 充做…的前驱
复数：harbingers 现在分词：harbingering 过去式：harbingered 第三人称单数：harbingers 过去分词：harbingered
BNC.20456 / COCA.16191
牛津词典
noun
- （常指坏的）预兆，兆头
a sign that shows that sth is going to happen soon, often sth bad
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.- 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。
- The November air stung my cheeks, a harbinger of winter.
英英释义
noun
- something that precedes and indicates the approach of something or someone
verb
- foreshadow or presage
双语例句
- For the Maya, a smoking volcano wasn't always a harbinger of doom.
对于玛雅人而言，一座冒烟的火山并不永远意味着厄运的凶兆。 - Some commentators have taken all this as a harbinger of full capital-account convertibility.
一些评论员将上述情况视为资本账户可完全兑换的先兆。然而这个可能性并不大。 - An icy harbinger of doom, channeling runic power and delivering rapid weapon strikes.
一位恶魔的先驱者，引导符文力量和给与快速的武器攻击。 - The emergence of bigger and even more complex financial behemoths all too big to fail is a harbinger of crises to come.
更大、甚至更为复杂的金融“巨兽”的出现都因太大而不会破产是危机将要来临的预兆。 - But if foreign earnings have helped US multinationals stave off a fall in profitability, the question is whether the current reliance on the rest of the world is just a cyclical phase or the harbinger of a transformation in corporate America.
但如果说海外收入帮助美国的跨国企业避免了利润率的下降，那么现在的问题是，当前对世界其它地方的依赖究竟只是一个周期性阶段，还是美国企业界变革的预兆？ - Nonetheless, researchers say, the test is a harbinger of things to come.
虽然如此，研究者们称该测试是一个先驱。 - If not its cause, others may wonder if the swooning equity market is the harbinger of economic distress.
如果说股市暴跌不是经济萧条的元凶，那么人们可能想知道，它是否是经济低迷的先兆。 - 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。 - A stronger dollar has historically proved to be the harbinger of turmoil in the developing world.
传统上，美元走强被证明是发展中国家陷入动荡的预兆。 - Harbinger of a new day.
带来了崭新的一天。