portending

英 [pɔːˈtendɪŋ]

美 [pɔːrˈtendɪŋ]

v.  预兆，预示，预告(坏事)
portend的现在分词

柯林斯词典

• VERB 预示；预兆；预告
  If somethingportendsan event or occurrence, it indicates that it is likely to happen in the future.
  1. The change did not portend a basic improvement in social conditions.
     该变化没有预示社会状况的根本改观。

双语例句

• It was a dark summer night, shot through with infrequent shimmers of lightning silently firing a cloud lying low in the west and portending a storm.
  这是个黑暗的夏夜。不时有几道闪电的微光穿破黑暗，照出暴风雨的征兆，西方被点燃一般低沉的乌云。
• Just when you thought it could not get any more unpredictable, reports of internal turmoil suggest the black hole that is North Korea just grew bigger, portending more trouble.
  就在你以为朝鲜局势不可能变得更加不可预测之际，关于朝鲜内政混乱局面的报道表明，黑洞变得更大了，这预示着会有更多的麻烦。
• Emphasis is respectively put on the administrative concept of action, information, institutions, resources and system construction in the portending period;
  重点研究了预警阶段的政府行动理念、信息、机构、资源和制度建设；
• The upshot: a global slump in personal spending is unfolding, portending rockier times for the global economy and world financial markets.
  其结果是：全球范围内的个人支出正开始大幅下降，这预示着全球经济及金融市场未来的日子将更为艰难。
• Ingenious and intriguing, the automaton was produced in the 19th century, portending the renaissance in Japanese applied technology that followed the second world war.
  这个精巧迷人的机器人制作于19世纪，预示了二战后日本应用技术的复兴。