Front | auspicious |
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Pron | [ɔː'spɪʃəs] |
Back | 【auspicious】 adj.幸运的,兴盛的 The new boy had an auspicious first day in the elementary school. 那新上小学的男孩有幸运的第一天。 |
Vocab | auspiciousauguring favorable circumstances and good luck
Use the adjective auspicious for a favorable situation or set of conditions. If you start a marathon by falling flat on your face, that's not an auspicious start. If something seems likely to bring success — either because it creates favorable conditions or you just consider it a lucky sign — label it auspicious. The word is related to auspice, "a divine omen," an old word with a colorful history. In Latin, an auspex was a person who observed the flight of birds to predict things about the future. Luckily, you no longer have to be a bird-watching fortune-teller to guess whether something is auspicious or not. All forms of 'auspicious' will appear on average once every 1543 pages. auspicious auspiciously auspiciousness inauspicious inauspiciously inauspiciousness |
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