1.Raven on a wire. A gloomy portent, precariously perched.

电线上的乌鸦 似不祥之兆 不安地栖息在上。

2.Since humans have been human we've looked to the skies for portents of the future.

自从人类成长为人类以来，我们就一直在仰望天空，寻找有关未来的征兆。

3.John looked puzzled, not quite understanding the portent of this cryptic saying.

约翰一脸疑惑， 不太明白这句神秘话语的含义。机翻

4.Noah, Martha says, promised the dove to pay him if he would bring a tangible portent.

玛莎说，诺亚向鸽子保证， 如果他带来有形的预兆， 他就会付钱给他。机翻

5.Fake images were denounced. (This eruption is in South America. Ignore and don't spread.) Talk of portents was firmly shot down.

假照片被谴。（“山爆发发生在南美。忽略这个，不要散播。”）关于灾难预兆的言论被坚定地击破。

6.Aye, Oin has read the portents, and the portents say it is time.

对，欧音读先兆，先兆说时候到。

7." Would anyone like me to help them interpret the shadowy portents within their Orb? " she murmured over the clinking of her bangles.

“有人愿要我帮助解释一下他们水晶球里影影绰绰出现的东西吗? ”她走动着，手镯发出细碎的响声。

8.Both portent and portentous come from the Latin noun portentum, meaning " omen or sign" .

预兆和预兆都来自拉丁语名词portentum，思是“预兆或迹象” 。机翻

9.This meant that he was collecting bizarre religious portents to help him invalidate Caesar's legislation after their year was over.

思是他在收集异样的宗教凶兆，帮他在执政官任期结束后证明凯撒的立法是无效的。

10.In another direction, pale Roman candles shot up singly through the trees, and a fire-haired rocket swept the horizon like a portent.

在另一个方向， 淡淡的罗马烛光在树林间单独升起，一架发箭像一个预兆一样掠过地平线。机翻

11.Trump's behavior that night was an interesting little portent, wasn't it?

特朗普那天晚上的行为是一个有趣的小预兆，不是吗？机翻

12.Portents are also at the heart of the adjective portentous, which describes things forewarning future events - usually events of the bad luck variety.

预兆也是形容词portentous的核心，它描述对未来事件的预警——通常是厄运类的事件。机翻

13.He may have been singing about the ominous portent of being born during an unfavorable astrological alignment, but the classic tune became a standard of the blues.

他可能唱的是在不利的星象排列中出生的不祥预兆，但经典的曲调成为布鲁斯的标准。机翻

14.Besides, the old man well knew that to steer by transpointed needles, though clumsily practicable, was not a thing to be passed over by superstitious sailors, without some shudderings and evil portents.

此外，这老人很清楚，靠倒转的罗盘来掌舵，虽然笨拙，也可勉强对付，但是迷信的水手绝不会同，他们不免会战战兢兢，感觉其中必是凶兆重重。

15.Still, now and then, I received a damping check to my cheerfulness; and was, in spite of myself, thrown back on the region of doubts and portents, and dark conjectures.

不过，时不时地，我的快乐会受到抑制。并且，尽管我自己，被抛回怀疑和预兆以及黑暗猜测的领域。机翻

16.Martha remembers a time long ago when the only warning of hurricanes, other than natural portents plain to the wise, was the whistle of the train four miles away at the village.

玛莎记得很久以前，飓风的唯一警告，除对明智的自然预兆之外，就是四英里外村庄的车汽笛声。机翻

17.A new portent had appeared in our economic life, a phenomenon that was destined to affect not only the social and business existence of the every-day American but even his political and legal institutions.

我们的经济生活中出现一个新的征兆，这种现象注定不仅会影响普通美国人的社会和商业存在，而且还会影响他的政治和法律制度。机翻

18.Indeed, in some sort, they were not grieved at this event, at least as a portent; for they regarded it, not as a fore-shadowing of evil in the future, but as the fulfilment of an evil already presaged.

的确，在某种程度上，他们并不为这个事件感到悲哀，至少不把它作为凶兆；因为他们认为，它并没有预示未来的不幸，而是一个已经预感到的不幸成为现实。

19.'He is-uncanny, ' Lavinia said, unhappily. 'There is no other word. You wait and watch for the next thing he is going to do, as if it were-as if it were a sign, or a portent, or a revelation, or something'.

“他是——不可思议的，”拉维尼娅不高地说。 '没有别的词。你等着看他接下来要做的事情，就好像它是——就好像它是一个迹象，或者一个预兆，或者一个启示，或者什么的。机翻