英语单词 | auspicious |
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英美音标 | [ɔ:'spiʃəs] |
中文释义 | n.吉兆的,幸运的 |
vocabulary简明 | 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. |
vocabulary扩展 | 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. |
柯林斯星级 | ☆☆☆☆☆ |
柯林斯解释 | 1 [ADJ-GRADED 能被表示程度的副词或介词词组修饰的形容词]吉祥的;吉利的 Something that is auspicious indicates that success is likely. [FORMAL 正式]
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