portend
英语
编辑词源
编辑借自拉丁语 portendere (“预测,预知”),源自por- (“向前”) + tendere (“伸展”),tendo的现在主动不定式。
发音
编辑动词
编辑portend (第三人称单数简单现在时 portends,现在分词 portending,一般过去时及过去分词 portended)
- (及物) 预示,预兆
- (及物) 意味着,表示
- Let it be known that the Rapture portends the End of Days.
- (请为本使用例添加中文翻译)
- 2012年6月26日, Genevieve Koski, “Music: Reviews: Justin Bieber: Believe”, 出自 The A.V. Club[1],于6 August 2020归档自原页面:
- When the staccato, Neptunes-ian single “Boyfriend” was released in March, musical prognosticators were quick to peg the album it portended, Believe, as Justin Bieber’s Justified, a grown-and-sexy, R&B-centric departure that evolved millennial teenybopper Justin Timberlake into one of the unifying pop-music figures of the aughts.
- (请为本引文添加中文翻译)