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

• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• Four shrines, severed by the tears of a goddess and harbingers of mother angle.
  在四座神殿供上女神之泪，母天使就会降临。
• 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。
• Black locust is a multipurpose legume tree species in our country and one of the important silviculture harbingers in northern region of our country.
  在我国的北方地区，四倍体刺槐可作为我国重要的多用途经济树种，是重要的造林先锋树种。