harbingers

英 [ˈhɑːbɪndʒəz]

美 [ˈhɑrbɪŋərz]

n.  (常指坏的)预兆，兆头
harbinger的第三人称单数和复数

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

• 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。
• The conceptual framework of this model provides a theoretical basis for how novel therapies can be designed to selectively target only the T cells that are harbingers of autoimmunity.
  这一理论模式提供了如何在医学实践中选择性靶向抑制那些可以导致自身免疫病的T细胞的新型诊疗途径的理论基础。
• 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。
• 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。
• AIDS is one of the dystopian harbingers of the global villages-Susan Sontag.
  爱滋病是地球村反面乌托邦式的先驱-苏珊·桑塔格。
• On those terms it cannot have a pre-modern history, only harbingers ( such as stewards).
  对这些条款不能有一个前现代历史上，只有预示（如管理者）。
• Therefore say up from this angle, Morris is one of the important harbingers of the modern design.
  因此，从这个角度上说，莫里斯是现代设计的重要先驱者之一。
• What the harbingers of new culture faced was not how to take or reject the traditional culture, but criticize thoroughly and replace it with new culture.
  对于提倡新文化的先驱者来说，存在的不是对传统文化的选择取舍的矛盾，而是批判的彻底性和如何用新文化取代旧文化的问题。
• As canaries in coal mines go, mining shares tend to be reliable harbingers of a sell-off in industrial commodities in a downturn.
  在煤矿里用金丝雀来预警的时代已经过去，矿业股正成为经济下滑时工业用大宗商品是否会遭抛售的可靠预兆。
• 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。