inauspicious

英 [ˌɪnɔːˈspɪʃəs]

美 [ˌɪnɔːˈspɪʃəs]

adj.  预示前景黯淡的; 不祥的; 不吉利的

BNC.32994 / COCA.27562

牛津词典

adj.

• 预示前景黯淡的；不祥的；不吉利的
  showing signs that the future will not be good or successful
  1. an inauspicious start
     不吉利的开头

柯林斯词典

• ADJ-GRADED 不祥的;凶兆的;不吉利的
  Aninauspiciousevent is one that gives signs that success is unlikely.
  1. The meeting got off to an inauspicious start when he was late.
     他迟到了,会议一开始就不顺利。

双语例句

• Answer: well, nobody may take it into much account, because it will be considered inauspicious.
  回答：每人会对这个问题多想的，因为可能会认为不太吉利。
• 9/ 11 ( 2001) another inauspicious start to the decade.
  9•11（2001）本十年又一不祥开端。
• The meeting got off to an inauspicious start when he was late.
  他迟到了，会议一开始就不顺利。
• All along the way people make great efforts to avoid any inauspicious influence.
  一路上人们都会竭力避免不好的影响。
• The likeness is indeed true, but it is a dull, dead, unfeeling, inauspicious likeness.
  真的，它确实很象，但却是一种呆滞死板，暮气沉沉，毫无情感的相似。
• Bad luck has it that most primary commodity and food prices have risen at this most inauspicious time.
  不幸的是，在这个最不顺利的时间点上，多数主要大宗商品及食品价格都已上升。
• Finding it so directly on the threshold of our narrative, which is now about to issue from that inauspicious portal, we could hardly do otherwise than pluck one of its flowers, and present it to the reader.
  既然我们要讲述的故事要从这一不样的门口开篇，而恰恰在门限处一眼便可望见这丛野玫瑰，我们怎能不摘下一朵玫瑰花，将其呈献给读者呢！
• After an inauspicious start, Scotland went on to win the match by three goals to two.
  在不顺的开场之后，苏格兰队最终以3比2赢了比赛。
• The Chinese people stress to send gifts in pairs, for odd numbers are regarded as inauspicious.
  中国人送礼物时很强调双数，因为单数被认为不吉利。
• Luther, according to the scandal of his monkish enemies, was a brat of that hellish breed; nor was Pearl the only child to whom this inauspicious origin was assigned among the New England Puritans.
  按照路德②在教会中那些敌人的谣言，他本人就是那种恶魔的孽种；而在新英格兰的请教徒中闯，有这种可疑血缘的，可不仅仅珠儿一个孩子。