augury

英語

詞源

augur +‎ -y，或源自中古英語 augurie，源自古法語 augurie，源自拉丁語 augurium。

發音

• 國際音標^(幫助): /ˈɔː.ɡjʊ.ɹi/

• 音頻 (美國)：

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名詞

augury (可數 和 不可數，複數 auguries)

1. 根據動物外貌或行為所作的占卜。
2. (引申) 征兆，預兆。
   • 1850, James Russell Lowell, The Works of the Late Edgar Allan Poe/Volume 1/Edgar A. Poe

     In Wordsworth's first preludings there is but a dim foreboding of the creator of an era. From Southey's early poems, a safer augury might have been drawn.

   • 1859, George Meredith, The Ordeal of Richard Feverel, Chapter 15:

     No augury could be hopefuller. The Fates must indeed be hard, the Ordeal severe, the Destiny dark, that could destroy so bright a Spring!

3. 作為重要事物預兆的事件。
   • 1928, Lawrence R. Bourne, 章號 2, 出自 Well Tackled!‎^[1]:

     Evidently he did not mean to be a mere figurehead, but to carry on the old tradition of Wilsthorpe's; and that was considered to be a good thing in itself and an augury for future prosperity.

     （請為本引文添加中文翻譯）

下位詞

• ailuromancy, felidomancy (貓)
• alectryomancy (雞)
• arachnomancy (蜘蛛)
• auspice (鳥類)
• entomomancy (昆蟲)
• hippomancy (馬)
• ichthyomancy (魚)
• myomancy (老鼠)
• myrmomancy (螞蟻)
• ophiomancy (蛇)
• zoomancy (任何動物)

 

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